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Dec 21, 2016 · Silence is beautiful, unsettling, and one of the finest religious movies ever made. Martin Scorsese’s film keenly understands Shūsaku Endō’s novel and challenges believer and nonbeliever ...
Dec 10, 2016 · “Silence” is the largest, most serious-minded examination of faith since Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” rounding out a trilogy on the subject from the director of “Kundun” and ...
Dec 23, 2016 · Silence. “Silence” is a monumental work, and a punishing one. It puts you through hell with no promise of enlightenment, only a set of questions and propositions, sensations and experiences. It is no surprise to learn that the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, has been working on it for decades, since he first read the 1966 source novel ...
- Why does Father Rodrigues apostatize? First, a definition: apostasy means the renunciation of one’s faith. In the film, Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson) has already been tortured, and, in a cruel twist, the Japanese authorities threatened that if the Jesuit priest did not apostatize, the Japanese Christians among whom he ministered would be tortured and killed.
- Does Father Rodrigues still believe in God after his apostasy? To my mind, definitely. Mr. Scorsese’s film is clearer on this than the novel by Shusako Endo.
- Is Kichijiro intended to be a comic character? I’ve heard that the figure of Kichijiro, initially Rodrigues’s and Garupe’s Japanese guide, and later Rodrigues’s friend, elicited some chuckles in movie theaters.
- Why was God “silent”? This is perhaps the most difficult theological question. It is not surprising that both Endo and Scorsese took the word as the title of the book and the film.
Silence: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano. In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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- Drama, History
- Martin Scorsese
- 2017-01-13
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Dec 22, 2016 · Silence is most easily categorized as a “religious” movie, and it’s certainly of a piece with Scorsese’s other pictures about belief and spirituality, The Last Temptation of Christ and ...
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