Silence tells the story of two Jesuit priests who travel to rural Japan to recover their wayward mentor. “But I was talking to Marty’s research assistant after they’d just finished working on Wolf of Wall Street, and she said ‘This is a lot more enjoyable.’ That movie is all about cocaine use!” Was it weird? “Marty’s been working on this movie for as long as I’ve been a Jesuit,” the priest, who worked as the movie’s theological consultant, says. Martin, the editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America, is devout, energetic, and open, so I’m curious to know how it felt - even as a Scorsese fan - to reckon with a director whose previous feature was full of frenetic bacchanalia. I’m sitting in Reverend James Martin’s office, in the same place where he spent about a year teaching Andrew Garfield about Jesuit prayer. The priest tasked with making sure Silencegot its Jesuit details right has seen The Wolf of Wall Street, and he chuckles when I bring it up. This post discusses the ending of Silence in detail.
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