Bearing the Weight of Jane Brox’s ‘Silence’
Solitary confinement; monastic discipline; gender discrimination: In Silence, Jane Brox explores how our circumstances shape our ideals, showing how authority muffles her not so quiet subject.
Solitary confinement; monastic discipline; gender discrimination: In Silence, Jane Brox explores how our circumstances shape our ideals, showing how authority muffles her not so quiet subject.
Martin Scorsese’s quiet religious epic Silence gives a definitive take on a book that thrives in its ambiguity.