In to great silence

In to Great Silence


The film of In Great Silence was very interesting because of how quiet the movie really was. The monks really live in almost complete silence there is a bell that rings that keeps track of when to stop what they are doing to prey. The only real sound that you hear in this documentary was the bells, the closing of the Doors, walking. There is no verbal communication between the monks they walk by each others and they just nod to say hello the only time they speak around each other is when they are signing their preys the silence is almost ear and weird at first but you adjust to the silence of the film and you learn to watch it a little closer. Like what we were talking about in class on Tuesday, we discussed how to reach silence and how hard it is to find it in our society with all of the noise pollution in our society. In the monks community they didn’t have this noise pollution that exists in our everyday life or just in our community compared to the monks. It was said in the chapter on noise that one of the only please on earth that you can reach complete silence in the dessert and that is almost a dead silence nothing there, but in this film these monks village is located in the mountains far away from society. The silence from where they live dose has this dead silence besides that noises form doors, bells and also things like nature. You hear this dead silence because the monks have little to no conations to society like electric the cell phone, video games stuff like that the have old forms of technology and that is all they need to live on. They have mostly candle for lighting the only real form of modern forms of technologies they have is things like a laptop and some other electric things and outlets. There is only one laptop that I see but it’s the bear minimum, these monks need to escape from our so-called reality or should I say society. They need silence for their medication and preys to fully reach nirvana or be one with God. There are things that we as a culture could pick up and add I to our every day lives, everyone needs to look back and reflect as the monks do in this film. It could help everyone to become better thinkers.