‘Silence’: Scorsese’s Flawed, Frustrating White Savior Tries to Save Japan From Itself
GOTTA HAVE FAITH
Martin Scorsese’s latest follows a Jesuit priest preaching the gospel to persecuted Japanese Christians but is far more concerned with his agony than that of the ‘other.’
It makes perfect sense that Martin Scorsese, who’s been obsessed with Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel Silence since a clergyman gave him a copy over two decades ago, should have spent the next quarter century trying to bring the Japanese Catholic author’s richly complex spiritual inquisition to the screen.
