But the priests are betrayed by Kichijiro (who is a Judas figure in the story), separated, and brought under Inoue’s scrutiny.įrom there the perspective is largely Rodrigues’s, as he witnesses Christians being tortured and is told that if he apostatizes, if he steps on the fumie and repudiates his faith, the others will be spared. They feel compassion for the people, who live difficult lives of oppression and starvation. Rodrigues and Garrpe live in secret, ministering to the villagers and others nearby. Those who refuse are tortured and killed.
Inoue’s preferred method of ferreting out believers is to force them to trample on a fumie, a simple carved image of Christ. On the island to which Kichijiro brings the priests, a group of Kakure Kirishitan (“hidden Christians”) live, practicing their faith in secret to avoid scrutiny from the government - especially Inquisitor Inoue ( Issei Ogata), who will torture them until they recant. The persecution of Christians was partly a way to quash the uprising. Those factors included the influx of Europeans into the country, which the government viewed as a security threat, as well as the Shimabara Rebellion, a revolt of starving peasants against their lords. The Japanese government’s opposition to Christianity, and the subsequent movement of worshippers to practicing their faith underground, was the result of a complicated set of political factors.
They meet a fisherman named Kichijiro ( Yôsuke Kubozuka), who agrees to sneak them onto an island near Nagasaki. Unable to believe such a thing of Ferreira, Rodrigues and Garrpe beg and eventually are permitted by the church to travel to Japan, where they arrive in 1639 amid a government ban on Christianity. The rumor is that he’s now living with his wife among the Japanese.
They learn from their superior ( Ciarán Hinds) that their mentor and former confessor Father Ferreira ( Liam Neeson), who had gone to Japan as a missionary, is reported to have apostatized - that is, repudiated his faith. Silence is the story of two young Portuguese Catholic priests, Father Rodrigues ( Andrew Garfield) and Father Garrpe ( Adam Driver). Silence is a story of persecution in a Japan seeking to expel foreigners The answers in Scorsese’s film, as in Endō’s novel, are found not in words, but in the spaces between them. The struggle for faith in a world marked by suffering and God’s silence is present in every frame of Silence.
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