Silence

[Drunk Monk]

Now that I've had a mediocre night's sleep (threw my shoulder last Saturday cleaning mold and mildew - a hazard when living by the sea - so I didn't sleep well) I'm finding this film rather annoying.  It's heavy-handed Christianity was just way too preachy.  Oh those evil Japanese and their Buddhist ways.  There were a lot of allusions to how Japan was a 'swamp' where the 'tree' of Christianity could not take root, which made me think "So Buddhism is a banyan tree?" which is a great misconception.  It's often said that Buddha was enlightened under a banyan, but he was enlightened under a bodhi tree, which is a kind of fig, which has this weird parallel to the notion that the apple of wisdom in the Garden of Eden was really a fig... at which point I realized I was projecting waaaaay more than Scorcese put into the film.  

I can't wait until his Grateful Dead documentary comes out.