Silence (dir. Martin Scorsese).

[It’s] a passionate but enduringly punishing film about religious devotion and the complex contradictions of faith. Scorsese eschews his trademark lavish style for a quiet, longing introspection of human conceptions of divine worship. It’s an exhaustingly earnest story focused on struggle and oppression as the film raises every question surrounding belief without much in the way of satisfaction as the characters are tested at every turn.

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