Praise them!

Rating: 1/10 (24 September 2017)

There is a fanatical absurdity about the premise of this story. Is the director secretly mocking his subject or does he believe that silent suffering is redeemed in the promise of a second life? I cannot decide which is more plausible.
Silence does not deserve the time it has taken to write this brief review. Scorsese throws his all into painting Christianity and Christian suffering as a emotional and spiritually redeemer. We see the Japanese enforcers branded as the villains , but who is the devil and who is the innocent? At its most basic this is a racist film, look deeper and it becomes a lecture on supremacist colonialism. Watch it purely to see for yourself how reality can be twisted to create Christian propaganda so that we may settle into blissful forgetfulness and forget the suffering that this religion has caused in Japan and across the globe.
This movie is simple, it is the lowest common denominator, it is base and shameful. I was disturbed and moved, not for the reason Scorsese had intended but by the agony caused of the delusion in this religion. We thank god, we suffer, god stays silent. God stays silent, we suffer, we thank god. This movie exploits suffering, it exploits people and it exploits our emotions. Do not let yourself be exploited!