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| Jesuit priest Sebastiao Rodrigues' beliefs are tried, but to what end? |
Dir. Martin Scorsese
Basing himself on the homonymous 1966 Shusaku Endo novel, Scorsese, with the intimate tone of a confession, takes the persecution of Portuguese Christian missionaries (and Japanese converts) in Edo-period Japan as his focus, delivering a cinematic tour de force that wrestles with the seeming silence of a higher power in the face of rampant atrocities, but, by eschewing answers in favor of fervent self-questioning to explore issues of faith, leaves open whether or not protagonist padre Sebastiao Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) truly apostatized at tales' end.
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