Review of Silence (2017) by Andy S — 16 Feb 2018

Scorsese's respect and admiration for the Christian religion makes itself known in this movie. Brutal to see how the Japanese tortured the friars and how resilient the Christians remained even after all of it. It's insane to think about how much religion can affect things in both a good way but also in a very negative way. War's have been fought due to religion, people have died, been persecuted. Very interesting to see that Scorsese chose such a topic and kind of movie to do as one of his last. Especially the time period he chose.

So grey in color, so dark, so gloomy. Fits perfectly with the troubled times that were going on. Kochijiro is a hypocrite and Andrew's character is looking more and more like Jesus.

I feel like this movie was drawn out waaaaaay too much. He could have made it shorter by 1 hour.

Overall, pretty good movie but I couldn't stop thinking how fucking long it was and how Scorsese could have gotten his message across in less time. Definitely not my kind of movie and definitely my least favorite of Scorsese's. Not because it's about religion and devotion, but because it's too long and somewhat dull.