As the Karma Chameleon always sings, "What goes around . . . "

Rating: 7/10 (27 January 2017)

" . . . comes around," and SILENCE documents this fact better than most movies. Wikipedia repeats Japan's claim that 35,000 locals (minus at least 2,000 kidnapped Korean slaves) died as a result of Our U.S. Nuking of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. (The immediate context of this Big Blast, of course, was a decade of unprovoked misbehavior on the part of Japan, which raped China, Korea, and the Philippines, as well as Sneak-Attacking Hawaii and Alaska, while committing countless thousands of Barbarous Sadistic Perverted War Crimes in the process of Murdering Millions of innocent bystanders just trying to live their lives.) SILENCE documents the 300,000 fiendish deaths-by-torture inflicted upon Christians by the Tokugawa Shogunate during the 1600s, almost all in Nagasaki. (Though 537 of these Martyrs have been Canonized as Saints by the Romans, the other 299,463 have been lost to Heaven's History thanks to the lazy Japanese Authorities, who were much sloppier in documenting their Genocidal Massacres than were the anal-retentive Nazi Hooligans of World War Two.) SILENCE shows that these Miscreants of Nippon also were much more efficient at incinerating the evidence of their Hellish Outrages than was the Leiderhosen League. But as a keen student of History (advised by actual History Profs such as Newt Gingrich), do not be surprised if Leader Trump finds some pretext to nuke Nagasaki again. After all, they purged their gene pool of all the Worthy People 400 years ago, and the Karma Chameleon would seem to demand AT LEAST 265,00 more "Pay Back" lives, multiplied by the usual factor of seven applicable to such Crimes against Civilization.