What Is ‘Can I Get a Witness?’
How did humanity arrive at this utopia?
By mandating that everyone commit ritualistic suicide once they hit the age of 50.
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Then they open a small wooden box, a purple mist wafts out, and they flop over dead.
‘Can I Get a Witness?’
Feels a Little Scattershot
Can I Get a Witness?
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There’s a diversion that lays into social media.
(In the movie’s future, it went away in 2025 once computers were done away with.)
Couples are limited to just one child, and there are allusions to previous A.I.-instigated havoc.
(People can only watch movies at a museum via projector.
Apparently,Duck SoupandZoolandercontinue to age fantastically.)
This is especially problematic because the film’s primary conceits end up being underserved.
But we never get a good sense of what exactly happens with Kiah’s drawings after the fact.
They’re used to memorialize the dead … somehow.
We’re just not entirely sure how.
Maybe by the act itself.
Too bad the movie itself doesn’t convey that same sense of urgency within its own lightly-spun tale.
Can I Get a Witness?had its World Premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Can I Get a Witness?
has its heart in the right place, though never capitalizes on all the questions it raises.
