What is it to have faith? What is it to keep one's faith in a time of difficulty? What is the cost of faith? Silence, Martin Scorsese's film about Portuguese priests in Japan in the 17th Century (based on the novel by Shusaku Endo) is, by and large, an examination of those very questions. It is fitting then that for much of the first hour of the two hour and 40 minute movie the audience must take it on nothing but faith that the movie is indeed headed somewhere interesting.
To be certain, Silence is beautiful throughout, offering green mountainside vistas, darkened caves, small villages, and scenes on the water, but after quickly establishing the premise—Fathers Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Garrpe (Adam Driver) are on a search for a lost priest who has reportedly apostatized (given up his faith), Ferreira (Liam Neeson)—the whole thing stalls. The two priests arrive in Japan in a small village only to decide to… do nothing. It is too dangerous, they believe, to go anywhere. They know Japan is dangerous before they leave on the mission, at the time the country is torturing Christians, but upon actually arriving they all but abandon their mission for no particular reason save "danger" and minister to the hidden Christians they have found in the village.
from IGN Reviews http://ift.tt/2hWvp3S
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