A Difficult Topic to Portray, but a worthy effort

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 2017)

The movie talks about Portuguese priests who go to Japan.
The movie isn't enjoyable or as enjoyable to non-Christian believers. I'm Christian and the movie tackled subjects that are quite difficult and have been points of criticism to the church. "The Availability of Confession to redundant sinners", "patience and nonviolence", "the limits of unconditional love".
The movie doesn't necessarily answer them head on but doesn't ignore them.
The movie discusses about pride, anger. suffering, and faith.
The movie gave me a headache because the frustration the priests feel and the pain they had to watch and endure was overwhelming.
The ending is hard to swallow but fitting.
I gave it an 8 because i felt that it was more forced than natural. It's not a walk in the park to appreciate the movie especially the moments of silence. The movie has almost no scores or soundtracks which help show "praying to no one".
The actors acted the part and I understand why Scorsese picked them for the roles. I read he picked the young priests with angular features to display how spontaneous and impatient they were as well as impulsive.
The older priests were given rounder features to show a calmer individual, slower and patient.