Silence

“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.” This is a very powerful movie. I am not religious, but I am infatuated with the way religion shapes the world and the way people use it to live their lives or justify their actions against one another.> Time and time again throughout history, you see people use violence in the name of religion—this movie is a prime example of that.> Silence shows both the light and the dark of religion. You see the light it brings to the farmers, who have a sense of peace when they first meet the Fathers, and you see the darkness when the one thing you hold closest in life becomes the reason it will end.> Asking someone to apostatize may be one of the most cruel things you can ask of a person. Asking someone to give up something they hold close to their heart is truly evil. Seeing the way they broke down Garfield’s character until he had no choice but to apostatize was heartbreaking. Watching him step on Christ for the first time gave me a very heavy heart.> I wish we had one more conversation between Garfield’s and Driver’s characters—maybe after Garfield apostatized—that would have been brilliant. Still, the way Driver’s character went out was amazing. There’s nothing more respectable than dying for what you believe in.> Andrew Garfield was outstanding in this movie; he made me feel every single emotion. I liked Adam Driver in the scenes he was in, but he wasn’t in enough of the movie to say he was on the same level as Garfield.> The cinematography was also spectacular—genuinely so beautiful.Overall, a phenomenal movie that will stick with me for a long time