I love this movie so much

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The documentary, "The Witness" had no specific intended audience except those that were interested in the case and were wanting to know the truth about what really happened in 1964 with Kitty Genovese. The purpose of this film was to allow Kitty's brother, Bill, to find out the truth about his sister's murder. He looked into as many witnesses as possible and even interviewed the editor of the New York Times in order to uncover the truth. Before watching the film, I had read several articles with differing viewpoints and information. One question that I truly had about these articles and even throughout the movie is if Moseley had gotten in any accident to cause damage to his brain causing him to act out in such a bizarre way or if he was just borderline sociopathic throughout his life and something set him off. The film took place in various places with a main focus on the street that Kitty was murdered. This documentary was very descriptive and informative, providing more information than any article managed. I learned that not only were several details left out of news stories, but that many twists occurred as well. For example, Kitty's friend stated that she would help a million times over again but the stories stated that no one helped out of fear. There were also several people that supposedly called the cops that night, but no phone records were kept of it. Some suggestions that I have on this film include that I wish Bill Genovese had decided to look into his sister's murder sooner, so that more of the witnesses were still alive.

'The Witness' was an informative story with the intended audience being people who want to learn more information about the infamous Genovese case. The main purpose of this documentary is to inform the audience about missed details about the Genovese case, and to give insight into what members of the family were going through at that time/ are still going through today. The director seems to want people to never stop searching for the truth, if it means a lot to you. I knew a little bit about this case before watching the documentary but a lot of details were messy for me. This documentary is about the murder of Catherine 'Kitty' Genovese and the path her brother, Bill, takes to bring some light to the actual events that occurred on the night she was killed. Bill contacted many people who supposedly witnessed the events of March 13th, and tried to find the truth. One thing that really stood out in this documentary, were the visuals that were used to convey certain scenarios that interviewees were talking about in that moment. The sketches that were used were very detailed and grabbed my attention every time they popped up on the screen. Every interview that was in the documentary was informative and helped add to the story. I knew at least half of the information that was in the documentary before I watched it. It helped form a more cohesive storyline for me. I would highly recommend this documentary for people who are interested in learning more about this case.

My last documentary film was a couple of Oscar nominees that I saw before the award ceremony. I'm not that into documentaries compared to the feature films I watch on the regular basis, but time to time I try if I get interested after learning what it's all about. Likewise, I found this one, though it is not a science or nature theme that I usually prefer than anything else. I have enjoyed many murder mystery films, but this one is a documentary. So I wanted to know the experience of watching the real story with real clips and interviews of real suspect, witnesses and what the victim's family says about it.This was about one of the America's most talked crime of the previous century. It took place 50 years ago, on 13th March 1964. A young woman was murdered where nobody came to rescue her. So after all these years, the younger brother of the victim, who was a very young boy then did not remember much of the event and following incidents, is now trying to investigate and if possible to get a new perspective of that dreadful day. His journey begins in search of truth.Like any documentary films, it started off without notifying us what's going on. But very soon the basic information revealed. Bill Genovese, who is on the wheelchair tells us what he little knows about his sister Kitty. Then the focus goes back to the day she was murdered. She was alone on the street, but there were plenty of eyes that witnessed from a nearby apartment building when a man approached Kitty and what followed was a horror. No one came forward, otherwise an innocent soul would have been saved.❝For years, I avoided the details of that night, because they were just too painful, but it's worse not knowing the truth.❞After debating about the crime like the motive to commit it, the film right away turns its all focus on what's wrong with those who saw it, but failed to do anything. Bill meets some of the witnesses and gets their perspective. The stories of how they saw it and how they reacted to it. Unfortunately, many of them are passed away as it was a half a century old incident. Bill, as well as the filmmakers tried their best to get useful and fresh info, but the investigation did not go anywhere as we expect in a feature film.The sad part of this film is there's barely any original clips, except a few personal archive footages of the victim. Because CCTV cameras were not found anywhere near the crime scene like todays world, not even 911 was existed. They say, this crime was one of the reasons to implement the 911 concept. The incident impacted the US big, to fight crime after many debates to introduce many other precautionary measures. This topic was also used for the college thesis and other researches. So basically it changed the system that America began to fight back.It was an outrageous event, but this film lacked something. Like I said the visuals, how that night would have looked like. They should have recreated it, instead revealing everything orally. Particularly the same event described by different people who witnessed it, that was this film's notion than the crime as the title hints. So pretty much succeed in its quest, along with Bill, who led his one man research team. As a documentary film, it is a fine product, but nothing like the feature film's murder mystery. So don't go for it with such expectation other than eager to learn the truth in a realistic way. So, recommended, but only for the selected audience.7/10

"The Witness" is definitely an emotional movie and I truly feel bad for Bill Genovese and his family. The purpose of this documentary was to help explain what happened to Kitty Genovese. You get to see what some of the witnesses actually saw and heard during the murder. The interviews and camera work were very well done. Before I watched the movie I knew about what happened and how it really wasn't 38 eyewitnesses. Although it was very emotional, especially the ending, I did not like the movie. I expected to end up with answers but instead felt like it just left more questions. Why investigate the murders now 50 years after the fact? Why not do it earlier, when there probably would have been more answers. It seemed that the people that turned down to be interviewed, like Moseley and Kitty's husband, had already moved on and didn't want to reopen old wounds. I feel like this movie was a waste of time as I did not learn anything knew after watching the movie and just felt bad that Bill Genovese wasn't able to get the closure he might have wanted.