Silence

“Silence” is the kind of film that simultaneously speaks to one’s capacity for faith and calls it into question. If “The Last Temptation of Christ” was Scorsese humanising his deity, “Silence” is him begging for forgiveness; it’s the work of a man who wants to find meaning in the terrible pain surrounding the practice of his faith. When Rodrigues looks into a pool of water and see’s the image of Christ he laughs with elation; but that elation quickly turns to madness. Scorsese doesn’t want to see what he ought to be; he wants to see what he is.