Comparing Silence And The Wolf Of Wall Street
The novel Silence written by Japanese author Shūsako Endo and the film interpretation of it directed by Martin Scorsese, who is a renowned director for his other films Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street, are truly two works of art that transcend storytelling and the way one views things, in my opinion. A surface explanation of the plot of the story; is that it revolves around two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Rodrigues and Garupe, who find out that their teacher, who was sent to Japan, has committed apostasy and now they must travel their in order to find if this rumor is true and along the way spread Christianity. Both the film and the novel are extremely alike in storytelling, they both hold up to the fact in the way the story
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Of course this is something that should be expected from a story that involves religion, but the manner in which it’s placed is what makes it unique. An example of symbolism being portrayed in the story, is the relationship between Jesuit Rodrigues and Kichijiro, which is viewed as the relationship Jesus had with Judas, Kichijiro was someone who once pertained to the Christian faith but he decided to commit apostasy in order to save his life and out of his whole family he was the only one to do so, throughout the story he’s always filled with guilt always asking for forgiveness from Jesuit Rodrigues, but in the end he ends up betraying Jesuit Rodrigues to save his own life, just as he did with the Christian religion. Another example of symbolism at play, would be the fact that Jesuit Rodrigues could be viewed as Jesus, he suffers throughout the story always spiraling downwards questioning his faith to God, in some moments we can see this, when he looks at the water he sees the picture of Jesus where his reflection is supposed to be. By the end of the story, where Rodrigues must decide wether to apostatize or not, he hears Jesus telling him that they are the same, they both suffered for everyone else in order for them to live at
Of course this is something that should be expected from a story that involves religion, but the manner in which it’s placed is what makes it unique. An example of symbolism being portrayed in the story, is the relationship between Jesuit Rodrigues and Kichijiro, which is viewed as the relationship Jesus had with Judas, Kichijiro was someone who once pertained to the Christian faith but he decided to commit apostasy in order to save his life and out of his whole family he was the only one to do so, throughout the story he’s always filled with guilt always asking for forgiveness from Jesuit Rodrigues, but in the end he ends up betraying Jesuit Rodrigues to save his own life, just as he did with the Christian religion. Another example of symbolism at play, would be the fact that Jesuit Rodrigues could be viewed as Jesus, he suffers throughout the story always spiraling downwards questioning his faith to God, in some moments we can see this, when he looks at the water he sees the picture of Jesus where his reflection is supposed to be. By the end of the story, where Rodrigues must decide wether to apostatize or not, he hears Jesus telling him that they are the same, they both suffered for everyone else in order for them to live at