Review of Silence (2016) by Ourtimehascome — 18 Jul 2017

This film is certainly for the religious, and everyone else will probably find it annoying. I enjoyed it for the most part, up until around the 2hr. mark when suddenly the main character Rodrigues (played effortlessly by Andrew Garfield) decides to go against his upbringing and sacrifice his own beliefs, ultimately leading to an unsatisfying ending.

Despite this, the film leading up to it would have sufficed as very well-done and enjoyable enough to see how a group of oppressed Christians in Japan lived and died because of their unwavering faith, which is a more powerful story and resolution than the last 40 min.