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Simply A Masterpiece

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

If you are a history buff perhaps you can suffer through this boring movie. Watching it at 2x its still slow. Just a dud in plain English. The book is slightly better, but again you have to be fascinated by the subject. If not, its of little interest and for many a waste of time. Scorcese noted he wanted to put this movie together for 20 years. I think he should have waited longer. Its garbage!

The movie is good but very average and exaggerated with average performance and a very good one by Garfield. The whole atmosphere of it was perfect but the movie had a lot of problems that I felt someone is talking not a cinematic movie where a lot of scenes where taking too much time of the movie while we could move to it's end and the skipped parts didn't contain any good details. Also the whole silence Idea was presented by the good screenplay and muting the sound in some parts but the whole meaning was very bad and not intelligently presented too. I have to say a good movie I rather not to watch again. 6.5/10 and respected for it's effort.

Martin Scorsese has never really handled religion in his films despite it being a pivotal aspect of his life. In "Silence" the master filmmaker crafts a nearly three hour time-piece epic that is difficult to sit through because of its slow pace and boring nature. Despite this, Scorsese gets his question across- how far can we go to keep and practice our faith? As an atheist, I found this film very interesting and mentally rewarding. Scorsese gives you a lot to think about even if not making the film as powerful or emotional as I was hoping. Andrew Garfield gives a terrific performance that Scorsese guides beautifully. While the characters aren't as interesting or investing to get through, "Silence" is a solid film from one of cinema's best talents.

Silence is a beautiful, yet grueling story about a priest going through great trials of pain that test his faith. A search for a apostatized Father turns into a search for God that transcends religion due to how personal Scorsese portrays . The hope and faith that the Japanese people show towards Andrew Garfield lets me feel the beauty of being and warmth of being alive. Yet the impossibility of the task of the Japanese to truly understand the religion and the hatred shown towards priests by the Japanese rulers shows the division between what is felt within the self and the reality of the external world. Recognizing this division and accepting it is a maturation that Neeson and Garfield's characters had to go through hell to understand. The worst parts of life on Earth consistently cause doubt in whether or not the most nebulous and beautiful tendencies of being human are real or not. Such concepts have definitely been explored before, but never as organically as with the pious manner in which Silence is portrayed. Before viewing Silence, I didn't know it was really possible to so subtly and wonderfully tell a story transcendent amongst all religions and all people around the world through religious figures, but Scorsese did it. The film's setting swims through bouts of fog, warmth and cold nothingness, mystically affecting the mood of the film. Silence is a challenging film to watch, but pays off like nothing else. The struggle of Andrew Garfield's character through the brutality of Japan is an extreme representation of the burden beared being a human on Earth. Witnessing death for ridiculous reasons, pain, starvation and distance all due to such trivial desires and misunderstandings. In God's Silence throughout the Fathers' immense struggle, they found their Lord within them the whole time, but absent externally. This discovery was a haunting reckoning, but it showed them how no one can carve the world in their vision, and that in doing so will drive a person mad. However unfortunate, the aspects of existence as shown in Silence are a part of human nature, and the kind of silence that Garfield and Neeson's characters maintain throughout the rest of their lives is the human equivalent to the burden Jesus bore on the cross. It's carrying the pain that's inherently going to be felt by traversing life on Earth, and realizing all that can be done is to keep what is felt within them, and express it in whatever ways possible.