Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth.
With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50.
Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned.
Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.
优酷网友: 一场漫长修行,学会接纳所有失去。
bilibili网友: 《我能有个见证人吗》镜头转场设计精巧,画面无缝衔接,同步切换情绪与时空。转场本身参与叙事。
爱奇艺网友: 镜头会讲故事,不用太多说明也能看懂人物处境。
搜狐视频网友: 故事刻画隔代亲情,两代人之间的隔阂与牵挂。亲情里矛盾与爱意交织,真实动人。
豆瓣网友: 中段节奏进入低谷,剧情推进缓慢,耐心等待便能重回精彩。