Laughably dull and just plain laughable

Nobody wants to watch this cure for insomnia movie.

That's why the only audience in the theaters are crickets lol.

MIllenials like you have tiny brains and big egos. Go watch Assassins Crap.

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I have not seen the film but I doubt Scorsese could care less about millennials.

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Not a millennial and to be honest I find this movie deeply racist and historically dishonest:

1) ALL the Japanese characters have rotten teeth and they look dirty, while it should be the other way around (at that time the Europeans weren't very clean)

2) The Inquisitor is a sort of old monster who laughs hysterically, makes strange facial expressions to mock people, makes noises when he drinks and speak with a crackly voice.

3) The movie "forgets" to tell the viewers that the Jesuits came in Japan trading firearms in exchange of the right to "save souls", they were involved in a lot of dirty trading business, there was a bloody rebellion against the shogunate by Christians...all things that caused the persecutions (with some good points I would say).

4) In the same years (mid XVIIth Century) the "good" Christians had transformed Europe in a hell with their wars of religion, the worst was of course the 30 years' war that caused the death of one third of the German population, then we had the persecution of the Catholics in Ireland by the British, the English civil war between High Church and the Puritans, in France the Protestants lived under siege, in Spain and Portugal the Catholic church burned the "heretics" in autodafes almost every day and they ethnically cleansed their countries from Jews and Muslims...


....and I should really care about the arms dealers Jesuits to have some troubles in Japan? Really?

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Actually this movie has a great deal of significance to any person regardless of faith or generation. I too was skeptical of the movie during the first half hour or so but it does find its groove soon after. I also thought Liam Neason was awkward in the beginning as well, but towards the end he is a far more interesting character. As an atheist I was wary going into this movie for the potential of it to be unapproachable to the faithless and yet I found it to have a more general poignancy outside of religion. Meeting with the Japanese Inquisitor, they have a discussion about what is the true religion and whether or not the Japanese are oppressing truth. Albeit the priest's truth is that of the Christian god but this could all be taken as a metaphor for universal truth. You could almost interchange the plight of the priests with that of the scientist during Galileo's time as they challenged the idea of the Earth being flat and the story would be essentially the same. The film then becomes more about suppression of ideas and maintaining your conviction in the face of rigid persecution. You could apply it to any period in history and it holds up. Civil rights, McCarthyism, Maoism, the American Revolution, The Persian Empire. You then sort of begin to feel a sympathy for early Christians for what they went through just because they wanted to believe in a happy afterlife. It's hard to sympathize with the dominant Christian complex of today, but at least you can get a feel for its once upon a time underdog status.

The film even also touches upon the topic of vanity, questioning whether the priests motives are genuine or in pursuit of the glory of martyrdom. It drives the conflict further by presenting the dilemma of standing up for basic rights even though it brings torture and death to others. All of it under the uncertainty of truth because there is never any evidence that the right thing is being done. The uncertainty of knowing what is true is almost as universal as truth itself and therefore this movie should have much more appeal.

This exactly the kind of movie people with a brain should be flocking too.

Not just millenials! I'm 50 and a third generation atheist. I'm not sure exactly how long I slept, probably most of the middle section. I woke when Liam was explaining to the young one that there was no hope for Christianity in the swamp of Japan. I was SOOOOOOOOOOO boRed the entire time watching idiot after idiot going to death after imaginary beings.
I don't know why I even bothered. I should have known better. But it was movie night and that was my last option.
What a super bore.

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Dull average acting overly long crappy dialogue and of course laudatory of the jesuits as martyrs when they were banned from 100 countries for fomenting revolutions and causing all kinds of trouble.

Yes it was pretty dull.







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