Silence

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Andrew S @Malasita 6d Great underrated Scorsese film. See more Lance R @RT32436283 Jun 2 Amazing movie based on just the pure concepts. The title Silence is fitting due to the multivalent nature to the lack of intervention of God and the oppression of Japan on Catholicism. The film explores the idea of how deep does your beliefs go and very reminiscent of the journey of Christ. Those moments you ask, "Why God?" and seek intervention are pushed to the limits in the film. Bad reviews missed the beautiful nature of the film. They miss that there is something beyond our understanding and purpose for suffering. As, Jesus cried "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" Only to reference Psalm 22 which is a stronger faith in God and a bigger message. See more Ebrima S @RT63662636 May 7 Great movie, really great movie, it's so good I don't know why more people haven't watched it. It's really good. Liam Neeson needs to learn accents, though lol See more Chase H. @chaley Apr 18 "Mountains and rivers can be moved but men's nature cannot be moved.” How do you reconcile and justify God’s silence, an act that suggests betrayal in such desperate circumstances, when your silence is an act of faith? The priests’ silence—capitulation in the Japanese eyes’—signifies a shift in understanding. Apostasy isn’t an act, a formality, a symbolic gesture; it’s an entire alteration of one’s worldview. Religion isn’t an act or display; it’s a way of life, one that begins and ends within the individual. Father Rodrigues comes to terms that Japan’s nature, or its leaders’, is a swamp. They will not allow anything to take root—germinate—inside them. What he can control, he realizes with the help of Father Ferreira, is that he can save the lives of those about to die. And God always chooses life. He’s already paid the ransom in his own suffering and cruxifixction; there’s no need for additional suffering. “I understand your pain. I was born into this world to share your pain” See more Christopher J. @ChristBearer Feb 6 Pornographic movies have always boasted their production quality but their essence is the objectification of the human being, male and female. It’s the wounded “entertaining” other wounded men and women. The same with this movie for all it’s production value, Scorsese fails bringing the truth of the Catholic faith by condoning apostasy and making an excuse for people who keep their faith private and under a bushel basket. I suggest anyone reading this to read the lives of St Paul Miki and his companions and how they witnessed their faith in Nagasaki. See more Rémi V @kernel_33 Nov 24 Beautiful and captivating, but too one-sided to be universal and fully accomplished Christians will find in this film a study of faith and its nature, confronted with other cultures and religions. How far can it go, and at what cost? At what point does one betray their faith by clinging to it too tightly? The film addresses these questions at length and in detail, with relevance but also many slow moments and repetitions, offering only a single point of view: that of the Jesuit priest, necessarily noble and necessarily a victim. Non-believers will find much to criticize in this work, first and foremost the singular perspective just mentioned and the glaring lack of historical and religious context—so much so that one often feels the film is aimed solely at Catholic believers. We never learn how Father Ferreira’s evangelization of Japan unfolded before he was captured and tortured, nor why the Japanese carried out such a cruel and relentless inquisition. This contextualization could have added welcome nuance and made the film more accomplished, since the sense of Manichaeism persists throughout the work. Still, this story of apostate Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan—little known to the general public—is fascinating and beautifully told. Technically, the film is highly accomplished. Only the performances of the two main actors, though respectable, sometimes lack credibility and do not always ring true. A deeper contextualization would likely have strengthened the film’s message and smoothed out its pacing and narrative. To be viewed as an introduction to this chapter of religious history, with distance and reservations. See more Read all reviews

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