Silence

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Landon J @Minxsykitty Jul 28 Painfully uninteresting as religious piece and even less as an entertainment piece. It's just plainly and thoroughly uninteresting. I think mainly it fails to focus on something important to tie in the story as a whole or make the audience engaged with the characters. See more Andres E @Andre805 Jul 19 This film was definitely underrated. It was a little long for my taste, but still a great movie. The scene with the 3 guys on the crosses in the water gave me chills. Great movie to watch. See more Andrew S @Malasita Jul 6 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 Read all reviews

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