life will constantly force you to lose your way

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2017)

Silence plays like a religious version of Apocalypse Now, with Liam Neeson being the Marlon Brando type who is stranded in a foreign land and lost his way. Two Jesuit Priests are sent to find him, and the tests and trails of their missionary are a brutal sight to behold. It is a story of persecution, of foreign invaders, of stubbornness and strength of will, and these traits are present with the majority of Scorsese's movies. Scorsese has approached religion in his films before, most notably Jesus Christ in the Last Temptation and the Dali Lama in Kundun, but Silence is his best stab at it because it shows not a crisis of faith but how life will constantly force you to lose your way, going from an innocent and naïve state to a full on corrupt one. Sounds like classic Scorsese any way you cut it.