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.
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.