Review of Silence (2016) by Jdiaz — 12 Mar 2017

I was strongly thinking that I wouldn't give this movie a rating. I felt like I could not possibly put it on a scale of 0.5 to 5, because there was so much to it that I liked and so much of it that I didn't like as much that I was really torn and didn't know what to think. The movie was too long, the accents were bad, Andrew Garfield was great, but his Latin was borderline cringe-worthy. Why did Adam Driver have an accent while the other actors didn't? Does God exist?

That is the other reason why I wasn't sure I could rate this movie: faith is one of the most personal things in the world, and this movie is comparable to that. I am sure that it resonated more with some than with others,but that is also the way faith is. Some people live for God and they think of her every moment of their lives. But that is not the case for everyone.

Technically speaking, this movie is extremely well made. And nothing less can be expected from Martin Scorsese. However, the story itself may not be as sound.

The reason why I am giving this movie 4 stars is that as personal and divisive as this movie is, as soon as I finished watching I felt a calm feeling spread through me. It wasn't the utter joy of La La Land, but it was also not the maddening despair of other movies. It was just calm, calm and silence.