Inspiring, sad, funny, scary and thought provoking (not to mention visually stunning, well acted and directed). All the force of a baseball bat to your emotions. Matthieu Amalric should get the Oscar for best actor, but won't because he's French.
This movie is sincerely f'ed up. It crosses so many lines and violates so many taboos, I can't help but love it. Tadanobu Asano?s character IS the ultimate anti-hero.
On the short list for best American horror movies ever. Sequences in this film have been continually ripped off, and not just by American horror films, we're talking J-Horror and Korean movies too, which says something.
A one of a kind comedy about communication from Steven Soderbergh. To quote the movie: "If you don't get it, it's your fault. You should watch it over and over again until you do."
Disturbing, dark and erotic. If you've only seen it once, you haven't really seen it. A film to ponder and study. My favorite in the trilogy, because although Winter Light and Through The Glass Darkly are still blacken, irreverent bullets to the soul, The Silence hit me at just the right moment in my life.