Fervent Confession Of Faith | Silence (2016)

 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.