Silence

In the 17th century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution during their journey through Japan, where they came to find their mentor and spread the Gospel.

The director wanted to adapt the novel by Shusaku Endo of the same name back in the 1990s, but as often happens with dreams, the plan was only realized a couple of decades later. According to Scorsese himself, the novel attracted him as a Catholic with its theme of God's silence amidst the suffering in the world. It is also a film about how people break, not only because of God's silence. Silence is not just His alone.

The film is long, running for 2 hours and 40 minutes, but we are no strangers to that.