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Silence Asks, And Tries To Answer: What Would Jesus Do?
by Amy Nicholson | January 13, 2017 at 8:27 pm

Martin Scorsese’s Silence, a ritualistically violent drama about the extinction of Catholicism in feudal Japan, is a film about faith that works like a mirror. It’s 1640 and the Tokugawa shogunate has executed 6,000 Christian villagers, mostly in tortures involving tatami mats. Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield), the last Portuguese padre in the country, wonders if... Read more »

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