This review has incredible insight into Scorsese and Silence

"This begins to make sense of Scorsese’s decades-long attachment to Silence. A secret religious conservative in anti-Christian and “liberal” Hollywood. Is he not an Endo of sorts? He’s a Hollywood icon by now, yet the superb Silence was basically snubbed by the Academy. He’s a long-time Catholic, yet Catholics have long been troubled by his work and legacy.

And, further, is Scorsese not himself a Rodriguez, or even a Kichijiro? Turning from the priesthood in his youth, he tramples on the formalities of Christ to get along in the anti-Christian culture of Hollywood, but he hides a secret faith, one that subverts his external allegiance to the American dream and makes way for another dream. Rejected by Catholics for compromise, accepted by skeptics only if he remains silent, he still clings to “these poor signs of faith.”"

http://renewthearts.org/silence-these-poor-signs-of-faith/