re: Finally Saw "Silence." Fantastic.

Finally saw it. I'd put it up there with Scorcese's best films. In away, it's the movie he's spent his whole career working towards. He's always been a very Catholic director, and his Catholicism has informed even his non-religious movies (think Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets) and of course the Last Temptation of Christ.

But this is a visually stunning movie that also clearly owes a great debt to Kurosawa. He's trying to ape the master's ability to shoot landscapes, and he finally has the ability to do so.

But he also is able to adapt a book that is largely one character's internal struggle into a visual experience. This book has long been thought to be impossible to adapt, but I think he absolutely nailed it. The final shot was perfect as well.

I loved it.