Endless suffering

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2017)

Endless suffering is not entertainment, nor is it enlightening.
I have read various accounts of Christian missionaries in other parts of the world aside form Japan who succeeded very quickly in converting indigenous people to their faith. In the case of Native Americans, many converted by simply being confronted with a written language in the bible.
In Japan in the 17 century, Christianity was resisted with unimaginable cruelty and Scorcese gives us 160 minutes of it. What does it reveal?
It reveals a sickness on both sides of the issue, in my opinion. The sickness of fanaticism and the sickness of narrow minded tribalism.
Ultimately , I found this movie utterly pointless and a waste of time.