Character study that's hard to fathom
Martin Scorsese's Silence is undeniably powerful and provocative, but it is also dull and seemingly interminable at times.
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GOD works in strange and mysterious ways, the faithful are led to believe, but there are times when even He fails to answer the call - and the silence can be deafening.
Two devoted young Jesuit priests embark on a mission to 17th-century Japan in search of a long-missing colleague, expecting to administer to Christians enduring repression and worse under an intolerant regime. What they encounter is a theological dilemma that rattles their belief systems and threatens their souls.
The passion of Martin Scorsese was the driving force behind Silence, a long (very long) film written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks about those two priests who journeyed from Portugal to a fog-shrouded foreign land that looked a lot like figurative hell.
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