Silence and weakness: how failure challenges faith -Theos January 6, 2017 by Fulcrum For a film that is so visually beautiful and rich in period detail, an atmosphere of quintessentially 20th century totalitarianism hangs around Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s novel Silence. Nick Spencer. Theos Blog. 6 January 2017 FulcrumShareTweetShare