Martin Scorsese was recently awarded the prize to the career SAMURAI Festival in Tokyo along with Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The award highlights the achievements of the director who continues to create innovative and carve out a road movie into a new era. Martin Scorsese expressed his satisfaction in a video message: "I would like to thank the Tokyo International Film Festival for this award. I am very sorry not to be present at the ceremony, and I thank my esteemed colleague Kiyoshi Kurosawa had agreed to withdraw it for me . I've always been an admirer of the work of Kiyoshi, so it is particularly meaningful to me to have agreed to be there in my place. The Samurai award for Lifetime Achievement. But I would point out that my life is still in progress, as well as that of Kiyoshi. Nevertheless, I am extremely moved by the recognition. When I arrived in Japan discovered the Japanese culture through your film, i film di Akira Kurosawa e Mizoguchi, Ozu, Naruse, Shinoda, Kobayashi, Imamura, Oshima, Tsukamoto e Kiyoshi, and many others were my pass. And the more I have seen and has become richer and more wonderful for me your country. Along the way I came across the Japanese literature with the writings of Shusaku Endo from which my latest film is an adaptation of his novel Chinmoku, I titled Silence. My life has been enriched with knowledge of film and Japanese culture, thanks to my visits to this beautiful country. Once again, I thank you for this award ". We have to remember that in the future there Scorsese The General Biopic, dedicated to the first US president George Washington, Mike Tyson's life, The Irishman together again with De Niro, Macbeth, documentary sull'allestimento of Macbeth by Kenneth Branagh and his crew during World War II, The life of composer Leonard Bernstein, film dedicated to the figure of the composer who worked often for film musicando, among others, West Side Story by Robert Wise and On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan. But also the manipulator, an all-Italian affair with which the director recounts the life of the Italian businessman Alessandro Proto with actor Channing Tatum who plays the role. And again Vinyl, a trip to the New York of the seventies, and finally The Devil in the White City or Dangerous experiments with Leonardo Di Caprio one of his favorite actors.
Meanwhile, a few days ago he came out in Italy SILENCE. powerful film that offers us the theme of Divine Mercy. I do not know if many commentators who have spoken favorably they have caught the Messianic message of Scorsese. So much that the film received acclaim from all regardless of their beliefs. Someone also mentioned a budget on the way the director sunset. But it is not so and even Scorsese stressed in the video message to the Festival in Tokyo that still has much to say.
But back to the film. Since dall'incipit which is sound and remembers the noise of a flock of birds all it is clear to director. We speak of listening. In fact it is the silence if not the opposite of listening? The human being is in fact SILENCEportato by its nature to shout: Where are you from God? Because I do not listen . . .
But in addition to the value of the message, in the nearly three-hour film there is the symbolic value, in scenes, in shots, sometimes disturbing. Viewers are attracted rather dall'ubriacone repeatedly traitor (almost a symbol of Simon Iscariot), rather than by the young Jesuit Sebastian writhing for his betrayal. And what about the bare feet of the Japanese persecuted Christians that sink into the mire of the land, forced to recant? The film ends with the same phrase used by Pablo Larrain at THE CLUB, story of pedophile priests defrocked: Only God knows. But here the same statement assumes the positive value that only God knows the human soul of Father Sebastian, apparently apostates but in his heart a lover of the Christian God. We have not read the Shusaku Endo novel Chinmoku, of which the film is an adaptation and therefore we can not make a comparison, and this helps us, but the points of view of cinema as Scorsese your fix of the stormy sea or from the top of the Jesuits on the steps of the Portuguese Church is the talent of the director confirmed. We can say that at the beginning 2017 it is difficult to think that other films can overcome yet another masterpiece of Scorsese, remember to Italian origins. Although it may seem strange to most Silence it is the continuation of The Wolf of the Wall Street, orgiastic films on the world financial power. In that case DiCaprio received no recognition, if not then with the controversial movie The Revenant. In the case of Silence the Academy will be inclined to reward the players of Silence? In particular Andrew Garfield (father Sebastian, l apostate), Adam Driver (father Francisco, the martyr), Yôsuke Kubozuka (Kichijiro, the drunken traitor), Shinya Tsukamoto(Japanese martyr Mokichi), but also the Japanese inquistore that with his shrill voice recalls both the Herod Jesus Cristh Superstar. In this regard we recommend the original version in plain English even for less accustomed.