One More GMO From Hollywood

Rating: 1/10 (12 March 2017)

Friedrich Nietzsche said: "The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence." In her writings Mother Theresa speaks of God talking to her about becoming a sister of the poor: "You are I know the most incapable person, weak and sinful, but just because you are that I want to use you, For My Glory! Wilt thou refuse?". Scorsese's struggle with his cultural heritage – all its imprinted Catholicism – made him become a parody of himself; incapable and unfit to direct "Silence" (2016). This film comes with a sense of a void, it has an awful emptiness, woefully filled of sentimental Christian mysticisms. A sellout of everyone's neighbor love, a benedictus from the Catholic Church. If there was anything at all in the film, it made me discover Masahiro Shinoda's "Silence" (1971 - Original title: Chinmoku), a much more eloquent, impressive movie. The once 46 years young Scorsese came under criticism from bigoted Christians over "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988)... what Pope Francis thinks about today's venerable Scorsese's missionary Silence I don't know, but to me it seems this Hollywood was made only "For the greater Glory of God".