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"Those five in the pit are suffering too, just like Jesus, but they don't have your pride. They would never compare themselves to Jesus. Do you have the right to make them suffer? I heard the cries of suffering in this same cell. And I acted."

I remember it vividly; like a memory still lingering fresh in the mind. It was my first time attending the sacrament of reconciliation, and I was just as nervous as the many other students lined up in waiting for their turn at the confessional. One by one, people entered and exited the booth with a degree of rebellion and solemnity. It eventually dawned on me that my time had arrived, and taking a…

I wish we'd get more movies like this and "First Reformed" when it comes to the topic of faith.

Both show a real honesty in regards to how damaging it can be for some and those around, but don't neglect the power and love that can be found within it as well, and show the difference in regards of what it really does mean to have faith vs using it to justify something else (as a certain character in this film does very often).

Both of endlessly fascinating in their careful consideration for their characters and what they end up suffering (knowing that they don't deserve to have these things happen to them, but not taking joy in and or…

Even on rewatch I'm still unsure what to say about this one other than I already see myself wrestling with it for years to come. Shūsaku Endō’s book itself is a masterpiece, a book about reconciling belief and inquiry, love and cruelty, calm and brutality (spoiler: you can’t), and out of it Scorsese has stayed faithful to it and sculpted it into an extraordinarily empathetic portrait of arrogance and endurance. Many have already compared it to Scorsese’s previous spiritual works Last Temptation and Kundun, but it’s closest relative for me is his criminally underrated Bringing Out The Dead, the story of a paramedic addicted to the high of saving life, but unable to endure the pain of death—late in the…

As a fan of Martin Scorsese I was definitely going to see Silence at the cinema, however I did not know much about the story or source material, I'd heard this movie was important to Scorsese and it shows, the cinematography and direction is brilliant. The cast is also excellent, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver play the two priests searching for their mentor played by Liam Neeson. All three of them are brilliant in this movie especially Garfield who is the film's lead character, whether he's in serious conversation or going insane at the torture he's being put through. There are some seriously well done scenes (some of Scorsese's best) in this movie varying from brutal scenes of violence to…