Note sull'episodio
Silence. According to tired parents, librarians, and corporations accused of using child labor, it’s golden, and you’ve probably agreed at one point or another in your life when the noise just gets overwhelming. For Christians facing torture and execution in Japan during the Tokugawa period, however, God’s apparent devotion to the sanctity of keeping a lid on it probably wore a little thin. How do you deal with unanswered prayers, then, or the creeping notion that God is indifferent in the face of human suffering? These are the questions at the heart of Silence, a 2016 film directed by Martin Scorsese based on the book of the same name. Silence follows a pair of Jesuit priests searching for their lost mentor as they contend with theological crises, a frightened and endangered population, and an inquisitor so ruthless and cold blooded he ...