A good film, a great story

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 2017)

Silence is not a film you enjoy. It is however a film that grabbed me from the outset and did not let go. For me the film was simply OK; Scorcese has done a great deal better. Missing for me was a sense of where the main characters were (yes, it was Japan) with regard to the rest of the country. The film had a look of a film with too low a budget to really project time and especially place. That said, the questions raised by the film are questions about the existence of God which I have heard raised many times before. The difference in Silence is that there are actual answers. Not necessarily answers with which I agree. But answers well-enough presented for me to understand how the characters were as enthralled in the Church, in their beliefs, as they were. In short this film gave me a lot to think over. Which is good.