# Silence (2016) >[!info]+ Details >- **Director:** Martin Scorsese >- **Writer:** Jay Cocks,Martin Scorsese,Shûsaku Endô >- **Studio:** N/A >- **Duration:** 161 min >- **Watched:** [[2025-06-10-Tuesday]] >- **Last Watched:** [[2025-06-10-Tuesday]] ## Synopsis 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. --- ## My Thoughts > **Personal Rating:** 8 Hard to watch, hard to look away. A really challenging meditation on faith, and the human capacity for cruelty. A masterwork of cinematography.