The actor: Issey Ogata The character: Inoue The film: Silence The line: “The price for your glory is their suffering!” Another Martin Scorsese movie, another movie with a screenplay like poetry: Jay Cocks again. Without doing the whole “let’s bring up all of my favorite quotes from the movie” thing again, it’s worth beginning by… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #59
Dir. Edward Yang. Starring Wu Nien-jen, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang There are few topics which are as generally repulsive as “person searches for meaning.” Look, here’s a Google search I did on the idea, and while not every option is bad, it ain’t a promising list: Yi Yi is full of characters who jump at… Read More Yi Yi (2000)
Dir. Martin Scorsese. Starring Andrew Garfield, Tadanobu Asano, Yosuke Kubozuka Spoilers ahead. Father Rodrigues (Garfield), over the course of the film, witnesses shocking humiliation, torture, and execution. Apostasy is the least of these after a while, almost passe in the misty mountains, immaculate sand, and lovely greens of one of the most hostile environments seen… Read More Silence (2016)
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