"Silence" is a monumental work, and also a punishing one. It puts the viewers through hell with no promise of enlightenment, only a set of questions and propositions, sensations and experiences. There's a reasonable argument to say that 'SILENCE' is one of Martin Scorsese's better movies. The talk is that it was his passion project for decades, finally being released in all it's artistic endeavors and mysteries. I suppose someone else could argue the opposite, which is that this is a story full of brutality and despair without the signature style of the aged director. I think I'm falling right on the middle of this. This is surely one of the year's most powerful stories, and yet I have to... |