"Silence." I've seen talk about “Silence” being a box-office failure, which is a shame. With any justice, this would be viewed as rapturously as “The Passion of the Christ” or treated with as much excitement as “Hacksaw Ridge.” At the least, it would garner equitable box office from Christian groups as, say, “God's Not Dead,” or any of the other fundamentalist pabulum released every so often for youth groups to lap up. But “Silence” is a movie about Christianity in a much deeper, more significant sense than any of those films; in fact, it challenges their basic premises with unnerving grace and intelligence.
Movie Jibber Jabber Vol. 2, No. 1: Silence
Movie Jibber Jabber Vol. 2, No. 1: Silence
Movie Jibber Jabber Vol. 2, No. 1: Silence
"Silence." I've seen talk about “Silence” being a box-office failure, which is a shame. With any justice, this would be viewed as rapturously as “The Passion of the Christ” or treated with as much excitement as “Hacksaw Ridge.” At the least, it would garner equitable box office from Christian groups as, say, “God's Not Dead,” or any of the other fundamentalist pabulum released every so often for youth groups to lap up. But “Silence” is a movie about Christianity in a much deeper, more significant sense than any of those films; in fact, it challenges their basic premises with unnerving grace and intelligence.