Flick I Observed

I love stories centered on the competition between Portugal, Spain, England et al in their early attempts to cement their own priesthood and trade in 17th century Japan. Shogun, Taipan, any historical works on the time. The clash between cultures makes for interesting facts and even more interesting fictions based on those facts.  Since I enjoy that time period and those tales, I have a lot of context to enjoy more works centered in that time even more.

And all that said, "Silence", Scorcese's new film about precisely what I outlined above, sucked. It drug like a sack of wet tennis balls dipped in ranch dressing. 

So. Boring. And. Devoid. Of. Character. Investment. 

Lovely cinematography, though.