a 2 hour and 40 minutes swamp ride

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2017)

Shusaku Endo was a Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic. He often likened Japan to a swamp or fen. In the novel Silence, an official tells a priest who has apostatized, "Father, it was not by us that you were defeated, but by this mud swamp, Japan." One wonders how a native Japanese man could think this way of his own country. Maybe Endo was not a Japanese at all, but a plant from China trying to spread the seeds of Cultural Marxism. As you know everything goes with the Communists, Buddhism, Paganism, Judaism, everything is fine, except that one religion which is Christianity. It must have been a treasure trove find for Scorsese, this book by Endo, to finally direct a movie which puts Christianity away as a religion for fools only. What else can one expect from a movie director whose genre has seen so much cruelty and violence. But the worst of it is that the Chinese -- who are currently reportedly on the brink of purchasing all of the remaining Hollywood Movie production houses in one swoop -- seem to have the last of the remaining Irish Catholic actors, Liam Neeson, lined inside their pockets as well, ironically in the same way as depicted inside Scorsese's Silence. The 2 hour and 40 minute sit through is not only a disgrace for Christ but for Japan as well. Maybe it's time for the Christian Knights to gird up their loins and ride again to rid humanity from this evil filth for all times to come.