Adequate Illustrations #12: Silence.
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The film is a philosophical meditation on the nature of faith, and is very good if you find critical thought on religion interesting and the crisis of faith compelling.
I think the film is going to be too pious for the inconsiderate atheist and too cynical for the inconsiderate christian.
On this video series.
I have seen several channels do 12 films of Christmas type thing, so I figured I would try it out for the novelty of it, as I enjoy experimentation and it presented an interesting engineering challenge, how do you think and talk about movies, etc...
This series was way more work than expected, I had hoped it would be something quick that I could throw together to give me the holidays off, but it did not pan out that way. A stressful dud of an experiment.
Planning, thinking, scripting, finding suitable clips and editing to avoid the copyright bots is a lot of work as it turns out. I am glad that I do not normally work in film reviews.
The series has performed poorly. A disappointing return on meagre investment.
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It's an odd film. Both Scorsese and Shusaku Endo, the writer of the book it's based on are/were Catholics, but the film's attitude towards the cult of martyrdom is ambiguous. They sort of fence-sit on the issue of whether volunteering to get tortured to death as a demonstration of your faith is really a good thing. Compare and contrast this with a more rightwing Catholic film maker like Mel Gibson, whose Passion of the Christ is practically medieval in its sensibilities. The audience is supposed to watch that, see all the blood, guts and pain and think 'Jesus went through all that for me. He's awesome. I owe him big time.' Happy Christmas.
This is a wonderful series, thought-provoking and unique. I have shared it with many people and look forward to more discussions relative to your insights merry Christmas Z.
Damn, that's dark for Christmas, fitting and I suppose exactly part of why I'm subbed.
I really liked this series. The intro sequence and the way the reflections were multiplied and hard to parse was especially great. It really put the video part back into video essay by replicating the main theme through visuals.
Merry Christmas! I really enjoyed this whole series.
I love the way you are able to pack so much information into these shorter formatted videos. I hope you have a wonderful holiday, miigwech for sharing your thoughts with us
Scorsese's most underrated film
I really liked this, as I liked everything you've made. For some reason I feel nostalgia watching this even though it's a new series, something about waiting daily to see what you've posted leading up to christmas.
Great work, found some great films here. Thanks
Very good. An excellent exercise in comparative thought.
Excellent series! Thank you.
Thanks so much for this series! There is so much I would've never encountered were it not for this fantastic series, short as it was!
I wish you good luck in all your future endeavours!
While there are plenty of film critics on RUclips, I’d definitely watch if you did reviews of historical films. Partly for your interesting perspective but also just to learn about these films. This series on illustrations has added a lot of films to my watchlist, some I’d heard of but others like Atanarjuat that I otherwise would never have known about.
Unfortunately film stuff is rather a lot of work to produce. Besides the usual stuff it takes a lot of editing to dodge the copyright bots.
@@MalcolmPL That makes sense. It seems like all the critics I follow spend as much time fighting copyright as actually making videos.
It's not all that difficult to dodge the bots, just tedious. You have to make sure that none of your clips are more than seven seconds long and that you de-synchronize the audio and reverse the image regularly. The difficult part is in making something semi-appealing out of the butchered footage.
This was very nice, I got many new films to watch in these long nights. Thank you very much and happy holiday to you too
excellent series. i have not seen this film but now i must see it
Merry Christmas, good work you've done.
I enjoyed this series. Thanks for your work.
I'm not really a movie guy but you've sold me on a number of these. Merry Christmas
A very interesting series with intriguing observations.
I'm late to the series but after watching the whole thing, I've enjoyed your perspective quite a lot. A long and happy series of holidays to you!
Merry Christmas and Happy Saturnalia! Jupiter is Best and Greatest, btw.
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Reminds me of the story I heard while getting my undergrad. Spanish conquistadors, which were not paragons of catholic virtue, more like second or third Spanish nobility that were in a lot of debt and wanting to strike it rich, brought terms to the Native Americans in the Caribbean and read aloud that they needed to convert or be killed. But the Natives did not speak spanish or latin and were just cut down or used as slaves. I think Christianity is used for whatever the ruling ideology needed it to mean. It hasn't meant what it meant for the poor Jews of Jerusalem since the Romans got a hold of it and changed it for a colonizing force.
Awesome work! Definitely adding a few to my watch list.
Merry X-mas!!
I was given this book by my Japanese girlfriend back in 1990.
Funny thing is her name was Inoue.
Same as one of the Lords in the book responsible for the persecutions🤔😂
Didn't know "Inoue" was dual gendered name. More I know.
@@musicaleuphoria8699 it's not .
It's a family name.
Ah, Bokonon.
The idea I played with this week; What religion most supports the persuit of a fragile ego? Take it away Maestro! And as always thank you for your great commitment to learning and sharing!!
Happy Holidays.
dead on about it being a religion of death
Merry Christmas.
Awesome series!
i think there’s a tendency to attribute rigidity to “the religion” (which isn’t really itself a thing historically) rather than the specific political orgs which enforce it for economic reasons.
I agree, but there are numerous issues of definition inherent to the topic.
on the twelfth day of youtube my channel gave to me
Seeing your work, interests, and obsessions, it seems strange in hindsight that this is the first time you've mentioned this film
Hopi Merry Christmas to you brother
Merry Christmas
😢 sad series is over
It went by too fast
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Where did #11 go?
Copyright claim. But it was the weakest anyway.
I would like to challenge your perception of Christianity, by critiquing what you've said here. Almost everywhere you said "Chrstian" and "Christianity", you can replace with "Catholic" and "Catholicism"-- and I would agree with you. The (Russian) Orthodox Church's treatment of the native Alaskans and other races is admirable and if you consider yourself a historian, you are in for a treat by studying that little-known topic.
I am ill versed in the structures of eastern orthodoxy and will thus defer to your knowledge and experience. It would be foolish of me to pursue an argument about something I haven't researched.
The clearest weakness of my thesis is that it is based on analyzing the two structural elements of monotheism and eternal salvation in an expansionist body or open system. My thesis is substantially weaker when applied an isolationist body or closed system.
@@MalcolmPL Understood, thanks for the response and intelligent reflection, as a follower, I look forward to you revisiting the topic one day potentially.
Mel Gibson's Christ movie was 2 hours of torture porn. I stay away from most Christian themed movies to avoid the lifting up of torturous sacrifice as virtuous.
I heard a Danish guy say that one of the ways Christianity got willing converts in Scandinavia was by proclaiming no one else needed to be sacrificed because the best guy ever got sacrificed, God's only begotten son. Norsemen usually converted eachother within their own families and it was way less bloody than what Varg Vikernes would have you believe. Christianity brought a lot of death but it also brought the world together, giving more questions than answers and brought its own downfall as a religion. It had its uses. It's important to not compare the modern day to a utopia that never happened. The Brazilian peasant today lives better and has a longer lifespan than a Portugese king at the height of Colonialism. This is the best it's gotten for most people. You can't expect starving Medieval people to give a crap about anything other than survival, after Spain pushed out their Muslim occupiers in the 1490s they had to build an empire to compete with all the other empires such as the Ottomans and Chinese, lest they stay weak and get invaded again.
I think something silence gets at what has always made me uncomfortable about Christianity: if Jesus died for our sins, why do we still have to suffer? Why should there be more martyrs if Jesus already died for all of us? The movie seems to say there shouldn’t be. You say Christianity is a religion of death and suffering which is definitely something I’ve pondered before as a lot of Christians seem to worship pain itself, but the movie I think is trying to say that this vision of Christianity is twisted. The movie itself is constantly struggling with the concept of heaven, always said in Portuguese as paradiso as if the Japanese are not the only ones disconnected for the concept. Ultimately the movie decides that God does not need anyone to suffer for their faith to get to paradise, that was Jesus’ job, our job is to reduce suffering, even our own. A lot of movies in the 21st century wouldn’t get near vocalizing gods words in a sincere way, but in this movie we hear god only briefly and it’s to say just step on my face so you can rest. After all why would any loving god put their ego before the safety and comfort of their beloved creation.
As a Christian, I don't find this cynical at all. Christianity *is* a religion of death, and it *is* a religion of blood sacrifice, and why would it be otherwise? The world we all live in is an awful place filled with horror. There must be something transcendently better on the other side of this life if there is to be any justification for us having to endure it, and it must be reached, at least in part, through the suffering that characterizes this life (that's my probably not terribly orthodox take, anyway).