Enjoy the Silence

Rating: 9/10 (29 September 2017)

Silence. A beautiful film. Scorsese has done it again. One of the best director's of our time. Andrew Garfield is amazing in the role of Father Rodrigues. Garfield's Rodrigues shows us what it is to truly doubt, to go on the journey of the doubt and arrive full circle to a spot where he has to accept his fate. As the pride of anyone, we want to fight back when there is injustice and not give in if it compromises our beliefs or our pride.
Silence is stating To truly know God and Jesus, we almost have to go against ourselves, go against what we want to do. Jesus Christ fought against what he had to do until the very end, and then finally accepted his fate and came to a calmness, maybe not necessarily a peace, but an acceptance. Father Rodrigues comes to this same end, he keeps fighting it, but in the end accepts what he must do to save people and to become closer with God/Jesus.
From there on out Father Rodrigues must pray to his God in Silence to save people and to save his own soul. He never loses his faith and becomes closer to God and even though he's come to this acceptance, he still feels inside that he's betrayed the lord. A fantastic film of inner struggle, the inner demons and doubt we feel, the Self vs. Self we all have and the injustice of it all.
How we all fight ourselves, and go through a spiritual journey with ourselves, God and mankind. A truly moving picture, an expansive film experience. Wonderful acting, terrific sound, amazing cinematography. Surprising that it didn't get nominated for a lot more academy awards.
It has been said that in the time when people truly heard God it was the people of the desert who heard him. They heard him in the Silence of the desert. See this film, a moving ritualistic experience with the heart and soul and oneness of God.
Maybe not everything will be understood about this film, but not everything will ever be understood about God. If everything was understood about God, he wouldn't be God.