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Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese(screenplay), Shûsaku Endô(novel)
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson
Genre: Drama, Period History
Based on the novel by Japanese author, Shûsaku Endô. Famed director Martin Scorsese directed and co wrote this tale of two Portuguese Jesuit priests who in the 17th century travel to far away Japan. Their mission is to find and determine if their mentor and fellow Jesuit priest has renounced his faith 'apostatized' thus turning his back on the Catholic church.
I love movies that are historical period pieces, as they transport us back to another day and allow us to see the past in a way no history book can. Silence, not a telling of actual events but based on the Catholic churches attempt and ultimate failure to spread Christianity to the people of Japan.
Silence, looks amazing, it's filmed almost entirely in Taipei, Taiwan. Scorsese takes his time, telling his story and sets the mood with subdued lighting and rain. The filming in the jungles of Taiwan, really make this film look special.
Unfortunately special looking only goes so far in film making. Silences, is slow, painstakingly slow. With almost 3 hours you would expect an epic, you would expect deep character analyzes, you would expect more than scene after scene of the priest stuck in a small hut, stuck in a prison cell, and torture scenes. The torture scenes went on so much that they lost all effectiveness and I found myself rooting for the Japanese!
Boring is a good word to describe this film. There's scarcely 90 minutes with of story stretched out to almost 3 hours. I love a movie that takes it's time to tell it's story, but this is ridiculous. I hated the way the Japanese villagers would made to look like idiotic heathens. Japan had a culture that was richly developed at the time.
Liam Neeson, has about 10 minutes of screen time and when he's own screen he looks bored. Never does he give us any emotional insight into why he does what he does. And that is the whole point of the movie.
Andrew Garfield, is good in this. I wouldn't call it Oscar worthy but he does a good a job at it, but he can't save a movie that has almost nothing to say.
Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016)
Writers: Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese(screenplay), Shûsaku Endô(novel)
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson
Genre: Drama, Period History
Based on the novel by Japanese author, Shûsaku Endô. Famed director Martin Scorsese directed and co wrote this tale of two Portuguese Jesuit priests who in the 17th century travel to far away Japan. Their mission is to find and determine if their mentor and fellow Jesuit priest has renounced his faith 'apostatized' thus turning his back on the Catholic church.
I love movies that are historical period pieces, as they transport us back to another day and allow us to see the past in a way no history book can. Silence, not a telling of actual events but based on the Catholic churches attempt and ultimate failure to spread Christianity to the people of Japan.
Silence, looks amazing, it's filmed almost entirely in Taipei, Taiwan. Scorsese takes his time, telling his story and sets the mood with subdued lighting and rain. The filming in the jungles of Taiwan, really make this film look special.
Unfortunately special looking only goes so far in film making. Silences, is slow, painstakingly slow. With almost 3 hours you would expect an epic, you would expect deep character analyzes, you would expect more than scene after scene of the priest stuck in a small hut, stuck in a prison cell, and torture scenes. The torture scenes went on so much that they lost all effectiveness and I found myself rooting for the Japanese!
Boring is a good word to describe this film. There's scarcely 90 minutes with of story stretched out to almost 3 hours. I love a movie that takes it's time to tell it's story, but this is ridiculous. I hated the way the Japanese villagers would made to look like idiotic heathens. Japan had a culture that was richly developed at the time.
Liam Neeson, has about 10 minutes of screen time and when he's own screen he looks bored. Never does he give us any emotional insight into why he does what he does. And that is the whole point of the movie.
Andrew Garfield, is good in this. I wouldn't call it Oscar worthy but he does a good a job at it, but he can't save a movie that has almost nothing to say.