Faith will be tested in Martin Scorcese's "Silence", about two Jesuits missionaries on a mission to save one of their own. The new film might be more nerve wrecking than the film "Revenant".
The film stars Andrew Garfield from "Amazing Spiderman" and Adam Driver from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". They play as a 17th century Jesuits missionaries on a quest to find answers about Father Cristovao Ferreira who denounced his Christian faith after being tortured by the Japanese regime.
Garfield has been in the rumor mill lately when Jobs and Hire reported that there might be a possibility that he got back with his ex-girlfriend Emma Stone. The site stressed that Stone and Garfield were spotted together in London.
The two were cozying up in Covent Garden in London. They were reported to having a great tome and even smiled for a camera shot. "The trailer is ominous and shows brief shots of violence and execution. One of the characters even said that the moment you set foot into that country [Japan], you step into high danger," Rolling Stone reported.
The movie was based on a novel by Shusaku Endo that was published in Japan in 1966. According to the site, the cast went through intense preparation to shoot the movie. Driver had to lose 50 pounds to play his role. On the other hand, Garfield explained that 10 years is not enough to prepare for this role.
The Telegraph reported that if the "Silence" is similar to the 1966 Shusaku Endo novel, viewers would have to look out for an entire movie of torture. It will not be deal with physical torture but will also deal with religious torment, martyrdom, complexity, and faith.
In the book, two Jesuit priests named Rodrigues and Garrpe went to Japan to look for their mentor Father Ferreira who denounces God to save himself. The two priests continue to preach God's word until they were captured by the Tokugawa Shogunate, where they were forced to denounce God in exchange for their lives.
After being captured, Rodrigues and Garrpe were held in "the pit" which is a torture arena where prisoners were hung upside down with their hands and feet bounded. That is not the only nerve wrecking part the two priests encountered the priests' ears were subtly cut which causes long and agonizing death. "Silence" will hit theaters on December 23.
