God is Love.

Notice how that man said God is always present.

He grants us understanding of a little chosen lifestyle.

Into Great Silence (German: Die große Stille) is a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was released in 2005. This fact hits home at the end of Into Great Silence, when the silence is finally broken as a blind, old monk offers his reflections on death. He is unshaven. The result was the now-famous film Into Great Silence, which indeed is what its title suggests: a nearly three-hour film that is almost entirely without words. An old, blind monk describes very simply the joy of giving oneself over to God. Besides when Our Lord calls a monk to silence he surrounds him with his presence. God is beside all of us now, at this moment. In the film only a blind monk offers some simple but piercing observations on Christian happiness, abandonment to God's providential care, and the tragedy of the loss of faith and meaning in the modern world. The Blind Monk, Craft Beer, Bar, Restaurant & Functions. Only the present exists. By the way, I'm Anglican, not Roman Catholic. The resulting work, Into Great Silence, is a masterful object of contemplation, a 162-minute journey into a cloistered world of ritualistic repetition, ... and a blind monk who patiently sits and prays before offering, in the film’s subtly ironic climactic scene, a verbose thematic summation. The film takes the viewer inside the monastery for a look at life far removed from society as we know it. We are presented with snapshots of odd moments: monks frolicking in the snow; preparing a vegetable garden for spring seeding; a summer Sunday outing when monks are free to socialize and, on this day, they discuss the appropriateness of washing one's hands before meals (a contrarian monk has a simple solution: don't get your hands dirty). It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains Into Great Silence is so compellingly beautiful, its alchemical spell weaves its wizardry long after the final frame. His words hit hard and profoundly as it seems that the silence has prepared the viewer to hear them as the culmination of the film. Time for the monks of Grand Chartreuse is measured in the prayers that structure their days. Into Great Silence (Die Große Stille) is a documentary of unusual austerity and beauty, like La Grande Chartreuse itself, the Carthusian order's central monastery high in the French Alps that German filmmaker Philip Gröning has recorded. It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, a monastery high in the French Alps. The long white hairs of his eyebrows hang over his eyes like curtains. In this contemplative documentary from filmmaker Philip Gröning, the Grande Chartreuse monastery opens its doors to the public for the first time since being founded by St. Bruno in 1084 to offer an intimate look at a lifestyle rarely experienced by those outside of the brotherhood. His film is steeped in a unique atmosphere; there is no narration. B+. where monks go to … It is a literal going into great silence yet the lack of dialogue and sound is not a bad thing. In my darker moments, it almost convinces me that the eremitical path is the only answer to finding any modicum of peace in this frenetic life. Some movies are designed to create an experience rather than convey information, and how viewers react to those movies depends greatly on how much they appreciate being where they're taken.