After watching Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u2018Silence\u2019, it gives me the same feeling I had when I watched Oppenheimer\u2019s \u2018The Act of Killing\u2019, the feeling where it just destroy your mood for the rest of the day\u2026<\/p>\n
While \u2018Silence\u2019 might not be as appealing as it is compared to Scorsese\u2019s previous movies such as \u2018The Wolf of Wall Street\u2019, \u2018Hugo\u2019 or even \u2018The Departed\u2019, the amount of killing and torturing involved really reminds me of the incidents described and revealed by Anwar from \u2018The Act of Killing\u2019.<\/p>\n
I guess you can say \u2018Silence\u2019 is a movie version of \u2018The Act of Killing\u2019. Instead of documenting the killing involved from the killer\u2019s perspective, \u2018Silence\u2019 surrounds missionary Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) in his attempt to look for Father Ferreira (Liam Nelson) in Japan, who renounced his belief on Jesus after being tortured. During his journey in search for Father Ferreira, Father Rodrigues encountered a lot of local Christian populations hidden underground.<\/p>\n
You have to understand that minority culture and belief such as Christianity cannot exist in Japan, as Japan operates under militarism. They see religion as a demonstration of authority.<\/p>\n
Once they captured Father Rodrigues, they did not kill him. They see priest as the root to the problem of Christianity. Therefore, instead of killing him, what they did was to force him to renounce his faith. They did this by village massacre, drowning Christians, burning them alive, and having their head chop off\u2026<\/p>\n
All of these were done to question Father Rodrigues\u2019 ethical dilemma, who struggles as he questions whether if he\u2019s being too self-centered or too unmerciful to commit apostasy. The dilemma where he is not helping those who are suffering as a Christian priest because he is unwilling to give up his religious belief.<\/p>\n
And of course, it didn\u2019t take long until Father Rodrigues breaks down from this ethical dilemma and chose to accept this painful truth.<\/p>\n
Throughout the movie, it illustrates the three key areas of \u2018humanities\u2019, the correlation between value, culture and the normative. You can see how Father Rodrigues firmly hold on to his belief and see it as a responsibility to have such an ethical guideline. It is this responsibility given by God that gives him such a burden not to commit apostasy.<\/p>\n
Watch Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u2018Silence\u2019 trailer here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IqrgxZLd_gE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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