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# Silence [DVD] [2017]

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Synopsis:Martin Scorsese’s Silence tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) - at a time when Christianity was outlawed and their presence forbidden. The celebrated director’s 28-year journey to bring Shusaku Endo’s 1966 acclaimed novel to life is an epic masterpiece examining the spiritual and religious question of God’s silence in the face of human suffering.Special Feature:Martin Scorsese’s journey into silence featurette

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- **Genre:** Thrillers
- **Format:** PAL
- **Contributor:** Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Barbara de Fina, Ciarán Hinds, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Irwin Winkler, Jay Cocks, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Michié, Randall Emmett, Rodrigo Prieto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tadanobu Asano, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Yasushi Takada, Yoshi Oida, Yosuke Kubozuka
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 34 minutes

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Foreign faith
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2017*

The film begins in silence, or near silence: the murmur of waves along a shore, the faint pounding of a distant taiko drum. Music, the standard start of any film, is absent. Instead, birdsong and the chirping of summer insects, crickets and cicadas. Thus virtual silence.Silence is also the spiritual theme of the film, or a quality at its heart. What is silent? Answers to prayers, the voice of God, the empty cosmos. Questions can be raised but answers are not forthcoming. Instead, they have to be imagined. So too the sound of God’s voice, a voice that doesn’t even whisper. Belief is not just a leap of faith, then; it’s a leap of the imagination too. The God whom the Jesuits long to meet either isn’t listening or isn’t there. Either way, he has abandoned them. Or so it seems to them.They have travelled far to spread the holy word, the gospel of Jesus and his disciples. They are Portuguese far from home in places such as India, China, Macao. A mission to Japan is proposed. It will be undertaken by two priests, Sebastiao Rodrigues and Francisco Garupe, both young and idealistic disciples of Cristóvao Ferreira (1580-1650), a Jesuit who came to Japan some years ago but was forced to renounce his faith. Or so the rumour goes. It has reached Lisbon by way of a confiscated Dutch letter now in the hands of Alessandro Valignano, the Father Superior of Rodrigues and Garupe. The young Jesuits are keen to reach Japan to establish the truth of Ferreira’s situation, but Father Valignano strongly advises against it, saying the plan is too dangerous. Persecution against Christians is raging in Japan. The mission would be suicidal.The year is some time in the mid 17th century after the failed Shimabara Rebellion of 1637-38, an uprising of over 40,000 armed peasants, mostly Christians, against the Tokugawa shogunate (and mercenary Protestant Dutch soldiers). After this incident Christianity in Japan was driven underground and the draconian sakoku exclusion laws were promulgated, laws that banned nearly all foreigners (except the secular, trading Dutch) from the country. A flashback to 1633 shows Ferreira in chains. He’s in a mountainous place of volcanic hot springs where Japanese Christian martyrs are being tortured for refusing to renounce their faith. They cry out in pain as the scalding water sears their reddened flesh. Ferreira says in voiceover:“I never knew Japan when it was a country of light. But I have never known it to be as dark as it is now.”Blood flows throughout the land: whippings, crucifixions, beheadings. The Tokugawa shogunate and its lordly daimyo have seen enough of Catholicism, this sinister, pernicious foreign faith. Its fetishes and fanciful delusions have been undermining social and political stability, converts from the peasantry still revolting in some parts of the country. The priests are a malign force that must be extirpated. Those who renounce (apostatise) will be spared, serving as examples for local Christians to follow. Apostasy is carried out through public desecration of holy relics, especially carved images of Christ called fumi-e. Samurai soldiers with swords stand guard while the prisoner, bound at the wrists, is commanded to trample the fumi-e underfoot or spit on a small wooden figure of Christ on the cross. Many refuse, preferring torture and martyrdom to desecration and renunciation. The Jesuits have done their work well, convincing the desperate peasantry that a better life with God awaits them in Paradise compared to the harsh one experienced here on earth. Their sacrifices and suffering are thus undertaken for a greater good.But is it so? Do these Japanese truly understand and worship the god and saviour of Christian teaching? Or do they worship the spiritual power and authority of Portuguese and Spanish priests? By serving God have the Jesuits inadvertently established a cult of clerical worship as conduits to some higher power? Who knows what’s happening in the minds of the Japanese, an isolated people who have developed their own fetishes and practices over the centuries: the worship of ancestors, nature, mythological beings and the Emperor. Can they visualize God? Do they know he personally cares for them? Do they understand sin and why the Saviour died for them? Do they realize Hell is real, as is eternal torment for them there unless they repent and confess their sins? Who can say? They go through the motions of the Christian rituals, mouth the Christian prayers, seem to be devout, but some still worship things Christianity condemns as pagan, irrational, meaningless.In Macao the young priests Rodrigues and Garupe are introduced to Kichijiro, an exiled Japanese fisherman. His ship had been blown off course and he was rescued in Macao. He can speak some Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish (though in the film he speaks English, Japanese and some Latin). He will act as guide and interpreter for the two Jesuits.All three sail to Japan, landing on a remote coast near Hirado and Goto islands in Kyushu. Here they hide out in a mountain hut for some weeks, cautious of discovery. Word among the local Christians spreads, the people overjoyed to know two genuine Jesuit priests are now in their midst. Cautious and silent pilgrimages are made to the hut where the priests bless them and listen to their confessions. Gradually the priestly missionary work expands to nearby villages, though of course it only takes one informer among the flock for them to be exposed. This happens and it is Kichijiro, of all people, who sells them out for a few pieces of silver, just as Judas did long ago to Jesus for the same reward. So the two Jesuits are betrayed by the person they trusted most, their guide and interpreter. Such is the cynical humour of irony.Taken into captivity, Rodrigues and Garupe are separated, and for a while Garupe disappears from the story. The local daimyo, also a Grand Inquisitor named Inoue-sama, learns of the capture of the Jesuits and visits Rodrigues in captivity. Their conversations are philosophical and theological, as Inoue-sama in fact is a lapsed Christian, fully aware of the tenets of the faith. Thus there is little Rodrigues can persuasively say to him that he hasn’t heard before.Inoue-sama is reasonable to Rodrigues when the two meet. He says this to the priest:“[This is] all so unnecessary. Just make a little effort to understand our point of view. We don’t hate you. You’ve brought it on yourselves. And you can rid yourself of it too. No need to feel lost.”But Rodrigues is deaf to this reasoning. It’s the Japanese who are lost. God has commanded him to rescue and save them.A local samurai interpreter interviews Rodrigues in captivity. The priest sits in his wooden cage, thin, haggard, emaciated, bearded. It’s unclear if he’s been fasting or hasn’t been fed enough. Like his daimyo master Inoue-sama, the interpreter knows his Bible and the logic of the Jesuits. He is keen sighted intellectually. The two of them — interpreter and Rodrigues — have the following conversation:Interpreter: I’ve been asked to interpret on your behalf. We have our own religion, Padre. A pity you do not notice it.Rodrigues: No, no. We just think in a different way.I: True. You believe our Buddhas are only men. Just human beings.R: Well, even a Buddha dies. Like all men.I: You are ignorant. Only a Christian would see Buddha only as man. Our Buddha is a being which men can become. Something greater than himself, if he can overcome all his illusions. But you cling to your illusions and call them faith.Rodrigues finds Father Ferreira. Or, more precisely, Ferreira is brought to Rodrigues by the daimyo. But he isn’t Ferreira anymore. Now he is called Sawano Chuan, his Japanese name. He’s an upstanding citizen in Nagasaki, married to a Japanese and the father of two children, his priesthood and celibacy things of the past. Years ago he renounced his faith to save many others from persecution, suffering and death. He did the humane, compassionate thing, suffering for it spiritually but not morally. If his faith would have destroyed the lives of hundreds of people, better to destroy that faith, or at least renounce it publicly, than to witness the deaths of innocent people.Rodrigues listens in disbelief and despair, his hero and mentor a traitor, a spiritual fraud. His crisis of faith will now be even greater than was Ferreira’s. How will he endure? You will not know until the very last scene in the film.This story of faith raises an interesting question for me: What is faith based on? I think it’s possible to believe in anything, to invest that belief with meaning and consider it precious, even holy or sacred. I think faith is an emotion that’s made in many cases by cultural storytelling, by old tales handed down through the generations. Identity for many comes from the stories they tell themselves about themselves. But the process is all quite strictly human, not divine, an imaginative invention, as it’s doubtful any rat, horse or dog prays to any god.The Jesuits were devout, sincere and deluded. That’s my view of them, and it was the Japanese establishment view of them too. Figures for Christianity in East Asia nowadays are as follows (percentage of the total population):Philippines (92%), South Korea (29%), Singapore (18%), Hong Kong (11%), Malaysia (9%), China (4%), Japan (2%).This is the legacy of sakoku in Japan’s case, its history an experience of isolation, defence and protection. The word of God as espoused by the Jesuits was something inimical to the overall mental and spiritual health of Japan. It was rejected outright as false and dangerous. Modern Japan today may suffer from many things, but one of them is not the fear of eternal damnation for failing to believe in the divinity of a man crucified in the deserts of the Levant thousands of years ago.Or as the science fiction writer Robert Heinlein once put it:“One man’s religion is the next man’s belly laugh.”

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great service
  

*by G***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2024*

Just what I wanted

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Look beyond entertainment. There is a lot to learn
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2019*

This movie is an excellent movie. I have read some reviews that rate the movie poorly and I can only conclude the reviewers have sadly missed the point. They've missed the message 'Silence' is trying to get across. There are questions thrown to the viewers which are hard to grapple with. It asks, how do you deal with a clash of cultures (in the movie it was between European and Asian culture though it could very well be between other cultures)? How do we deal with the tussle between religion and government for influence over people? What about peoples freedom to choose what they want to believe? Where do we draw the line between faith, logic and wisdom? It also deals with human nature especially with the display of enormous courage and strength in the face of cruelty and certain death. Likewise, perceived weakness can also have its value though a quality most people would rather not admit. When you watch the movie and ask yourself "how would I, how should I deal with a situation like this in the light of my convictions?" Then you will fully appreciate the message of the movie Silence and why it is relevant in the society today. It is a rewarding movie for objective minded movie lovers who enjoy reflecting on themes and are able to look beyond mere entertainment values of this kind of movie. I must also add that the cast were brilliant in conveying emotions, the Director was clearly patient and passionate about this movie.

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