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With the trailer for Silence just out, what do you think the chances are that Christian groups are going to line up behind a mainstream and devout movie about prostelyzing and suffering for your faith? I'm guessing zero.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I don't know, I can see Silence becoming popular in church circles. It's not like these groups are fundamentally opposed to mainstream films with overtly Christian themes. Otherwise, they wouldn't have flocked to The Passion of the Christ in droves. I don't know, it seems altogether too complex and ambivalent to do well in evangelical circles (it has a healthy support by Catholic establishment types, though): quote:For all that, “Silence” is itself a complex act of inculturation — a novel, featuring a European priest’s point of view, that could not have been written by anyone but a Japanese. The fumie, too, is an expression of inculturation, a point developed in a new book by the artist Makoto Fujimura. It is an image of God devised by the shogunate for the purpose of abuse, but over the course of the novel, it becomes an authentic image of Christ. Under threat, the converts abuse it. They renounce their faith. But that doesn’t mean they stop believing. They keep “hidden faith” in mysterious ways. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/magazine/the-passion-of-martin-scorsese.html
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Dec 2, 2016 16:42
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Looks like Silence doesn't get into the Christian canon: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/01/09/silence-will-be-forsaken
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Jan 13, 2017 00:13
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