i be ready to stop watch into great silence after forty minute . i do not have a problem with the film slowness and although it be slow . i do not have a problem with the religious topic and or the arty shot . i be uncomfortable be a voyeur . into great silence have no voice over narration and no explanation of monastery life and and no narrative structure . much of the time and the viewer be star at monk attend to their daily function represent pray and eat and do manual labor . give that nothing come between u and them and i felt uncomfortable that i be star at stranger . so and i stop watch . i think about it for a while and and remind myself that the monk have agree to be film and and be not be film surreptitiously . i begin watch the film again and and like it well . while watch it and i move into it slow pace . my expectation level mesh with the film pace . this be the best film i have see for capture the kind of life one live in primitive isolation a life i be lucky enough to live for a while myself . mote of dust in shaft of sunlight and the sound a pair of scissors make while cut through cloth and the physical stamen need to complete labor and the taste of the most common repast represent all become all encompassing and without addictive modern society to suck at one soul . that the film also convey the monk commitment to christ be a bonus . the more people who come to understand what christianity be and the good . the monastery life be not the only expression of christianity and but it be a significant one . monk and a historian remind u and create the foundation of europe and not just in their scholarship and their faith and but also in their industry and agriculture . i hope viewer will give the film a chance and include viewer who might become impatient with it slowness and it difference at first .