Post the strangest Silence link you can find.

[arnzilla]

I haven't a clue.

[CharlieKappa]

Dec 13, 2016 22:41:27 GMT -5 arnzilla said:

I haven't a clue.

By the way, where is Gabriel? I've missed him

[arnzilla]

Somewhere in Japan. We must find him.

[CharlieKappa]

He denounced Marty in public and surrendered the faith?

[arnzilla]

That's not possible. Gabriel risked his life to spread faith in Marty all over Japan.

[Gabriel F.]

Shhh, my faith in Marty is strong as always, don't believe anything you hear...

[CharlieKappa]

Heeey amigo! Welcome back! I've missed your writing

[arnzilla]

Gabriel was hiding in this thread so long, he lost 50 lbs.


This guy is NUCKING FUTS!

[arnzilla]

Armond White's review in National Review

Silence reveals Scorsese’s difficulty in maintaining faith and tradition in a world gone mad — the constant Catholic condition — yet this personal and social dilemma gets drowned out by his ponderous religiosity and his movie-brat distractions.

After the genuine internal journey of Mean Streets (1973), which looked at Roman Catholicism among urban American hooligans, Scorsese never again showed suffering; he hid his personal dilemma behind violent macho bravado. (Raging Bull’s religious overtones were portentous and irrelevant to the film’s egotistical flourishes.)

Just as the increasingly faithless movie-brats have taken simplistic, anti-West, progressive stances on political history and gone silent on the contemporary persecution of Christians, Silence shows little real interest in the ISIS and Taliban allegory it initially presents. Silence becomes a weirdly punishing chronicle of the tests that Christians endure to hold on to their faith in the face of assaults from enemies. Scorsese naï​vely and sentimentally equates this troubling history — and its all-too-modern counterpart in the Middle East and elsewhere — with a crisis of the heart.