Roman Catholic to Buddhism by the crack of a whip

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2017)

Watched Silence in Capitol 6 last night in Victoria City. I think this movie is about a resistance to change, and that is why this movie, even though it is about circumstances that happened many hundreds of years ago, it still relevant in 2017. The Japanese in this movie had the power and the authority to outlaw Christianity; and they did so in a very clever way. This movie was able to capture some of the details of power - for example, the Japanese were able to use techniques which in essence was the defamation of the R. C. religion. Perhaps this was an example of how colonization through religion did not work in Japan; whereas in other countries like South America, it did work. The 2 priests that were sent from Portugal did seem to believe in the truth of R.C. - was it is debatable if they were actually out to harm the Japanese with intent (by innocent Japanese laying down their lives in the name of Christianity). I give it a 9/10 because it is about a topic that I am currently interested in - the resistance to change.