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Or Forever Hold Your Peace...

MARTIN SCORSESE’S LATEST FILM ‘SILENCE’ EXPLORES THE VOID

Just saw Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Silence. The film, starring Andrew Garfield as a Jesuit Priest in 17th Century Japan, is an exploration on faith and motivation. At least that’s how it felt to me. 

How do I know this is the right path for me? Is it beneficial to others as well as myself? Are these assurances real, or are they imagined by me and my ego in order to proceed via vanity and not altruism. Garfield’s character, Padre Rodrigues, faces these challenges as he is captured by the inquisitors who not only wish to rid its Japanese people of the foreign teachings of Christianity but also require the priest to denounce his faith, in order to undo his influence on present and future converts. 

Its a dense film that resonates with any of us who have been gripped with challenges of conviction. Whether they be religious or not. As troubling to Rodrigues as it is to us, in our own self-reflections, ask and ask as we may, there is only silence that response. Only our own voice that we hear, returning. Any sign, whether dream, divination or synchronicity will require an act of faith. A leap with a few missing pieces of evidence that we will have to accept as absent but not strong enough to dismiss the value of what remains present. 

I guess the film made me think about my life a lot and choices i’ve made and will continue to make. It also made me think of silence, this idea of “non-answer.” Silence is a solitude we must stand and move through, like the number zero, silence is void, yet to be present in it is also to nullify it as any number does to zero. And even still, we can’t stop silence, even with noise, its just noise in addition to silence. Whatever its plan for you, whatever criticism and allegiance, silence leaves in your hands, the will to act.