I just found out that Martin Scorsese's new film Silence is based on a book by a Japanese author. Has anyone here read it, by any chance? Would you recommend it?
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Aiden Parker
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Parker Davis
Yeah it's pretty decent. I'd recommend it, OP.
Juan Powell
yea its excellent
Colton Morgan
One of those works that reminds you that contemporary lit still has much to offer.
Ian Williams
I loved it and it's one of my favourite novels, can't wait for Scorsese to twist and fuck up everything the novel was about.
Joshua Bennett
Theres actually already a movie version of it, its on hulu in the criterion collection.
That said, this is supposedly Scorsese's end of life passion project so there is hope that he wants to create one more great film.
Hunter Lee
It's absolutely excellent, and I'm not even a Christian, it's more about faith in general than Christianity
Samuel Jackson
"contemporary"
lol
Cooper Lewis
No, it's very specifically about Christianity in the themes, especially the christology and contemplaton of suffering for others, but the other being little pieces of shit who would sell their mothers and rape their sisters.
Josiah Bailey
I guess. I'm not very fond of Endo but it is easy and short. If he weren't Japanese I would probably think better of him, but since he is I can't think of him without thinking of the many, many better Japanese writers and how much more I would rather be reading them.
The studios are trying to make him cut an hour of footage from it so don't get your hopes up.