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Silence
Drama, History
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to austere historical dramas about spiritual doubt, moral endurance, and the painful limits of conviction.
- Tone
- contemplative, bleak, melancholic
- Payoff
- reflection, heartbreak
- Pacing
- meditative
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- faith, religious persecution, moral compromise, cultural collision, martyrdom
- Setting
- seventeenth-century, persecuted rural communities and feudal Japan
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