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Post by drspaceman on Mar 16, 2017 17:12:17 GMT
What's your take on the movie?
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Post by amit654321 on Mar 16, 2017 17:34:35 GMT
I was just interested to watch 1 hollywood movie that was split, couldn't watch it for some reason. Haven't watched silence. Did you watch split?
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Post by drspaceman on Mar 16, 2017 18:08:42 GMT
Yeah, I watched Split. I only really enjoyed it for McAvoy and the nostalgia of Shamylan's early movies.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 17, 2017 1:36:41 GMT
i watched SILENCE. didnt like it much. didnt care for the actors except for that japanese one who looked like CHRISTOPH WALTZ and also the tough guy who played the translator. and im no fan of christian missionaries. though in this case they were saving the poor peasants. but you know what some of the missionaries would be like once they gain some power.
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Post by mummersfarce on Mar 17, 2017 6:36:01 GMT
Yes. Easily one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. It is a real drag at 2.45 run time with no real character or plot development. Japanese characters speaking English in a weird way gets grating after a while and I felt nothing for any of the characters.
Saw an interview of Scorcese talking about the movie and he seemed very emotional and invested in the story he was trying to tell. May be that worked against the movie coz it really goes overboard to show how the missionaries had to battle elements like rain,wind, sea and cold in addition to torture and persecution by the Japanese Buddhists with repeated scenes with no cohorence. Reminds me of how JP Dutta botched that movie about Kargill Martyrs. It felt like he was trying to pay tribute to war heroes with every scene and forgot he was actually making a movie and the structure and narrative of movie matters too, not just what it is trying to convey.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 17, 2017 13:06:24 GMT
scorsese admitted that he is a catholic during an interview.
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Mar 17, 2017 13:27:30 GMT
Silence (2016) 8/10
Very long movie that I did not want to watch ... but it turned out to be worth my time.
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Post by drspaceman on Mar 17, 2017 14:08:26 GMT
i watched SILENCE. didnt like it much. didnt care for the actors except for that japanese one who looked like CHRISTOPH WALTZ and also the tough guy who played the translator. and im no fan of christian missionaries. though in this case they were saving the poor peasants. but you know what some of the missionaries would be like once they gain some power. I thought the movie was pretty critical of the missionaries, implying that they were too selfish to save the lives of the peasants by not apostatizing and also for being used as tools by the colonialists. There really is no difference in the faith of the Japanese guy who continuously apostatizes and Andrew Garfield's character by the end of the movie. I wonder if this movie got ignored by Hollywood during awards season because it shows a country aggressively and violently protecting it's culture and way of life without making them outright villains. |
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 17, 2017 14:24:07 GMT
i watched SILENCE. didnt like it much. didnt care for the actors except for that japanese one who looked like CHRISTOPH WALTZ and also the tough guy who played the translator. and im no fan of christian missionaries. though in this case they were saving the poor peasants. but you know what some of the missionaries would be like once they gain some power. I thought the movie was pretty critical of the missionaries, implying that they were too selfish to save the lives of the peasants by not apostatizing and also for being used as tools by the colonialists. There really is no difference in the faith of the Japanese guy who continuously apostatizes and Andrew Garfield's character by the end of the movie. I wonder if this movie got ignored by Hollywood during awards season because it shows a country aggressively and violently protecting it's culture and way of life without making them outright villains. but spaceman, its written in the end that the film is dedicated to japanese christians or something like that. and the priests who come to save them are all tortured. and in the end when he dies, he still has the little statue in his body. |
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Post by drspaceman on Mar 17, 2017 17:45:42 GMT
I thought the movie was pretty critical of the missionaries, implying that they were too selfish to save the lives of the peasants by not apostatizing and also for being used as tools by the colonialists. There really is no difference in the faith of the Japanese guy who continuously apostatizes and Andrew Garfield's character by the end of the movie. I wonder if this movie got ignored by Hollywood during awards season because it shows a country aggressively and violently protecting it's culture and way of life without making them outright villains. but spaceman, its written in the end that the film is dedicated to japanese christians or something like that. and the priests who come to save them are all tortured. and in the end when he dies, he still has the little statue in his body. Yeah, it was the Japanese christians who suffered the most and they were the innocents who were stuck in the middle. The suffering of the priests isn't the same as the suffering of the peasants. The peasants worshipped something they didn't even understand and suffered for no reason. The missionaries suffering is almost considered selfish because they thought of themselves as Christ like figures when being tortured. I just don't think this movie chose a side and I think Scorcese made a pretty balanced movie despite being a christian. |
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 17, 2017 17:53:00 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 17, 2017 17:53:33 GMT
maybe your interpretation is correct.
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