i have just awaken from a beautiful dream . before i sleep i come from an italian restaurant in which i be with my business manager and we talk about various subject and we gossip about our personal life and feast upon a sumptuous meal . before we go to that italian restaurant we be in santa monica nuart theater and feast upon a very poetic and mesmerizing and entrancing and seductive and breathtaking film . into great silence be not for the popcorn flick fan . if youre into blockbuster and that your taste then you probably would not like this film . you must be a staunch art house film goer . you must be a sophisticated film watcher to truly appreciate this film . your taste level for film must be at a high level to enjoy this film with little ease . but if youre not any of those and you surrender to this film you will have no doubt a poetic and mesmerizing and hypnotic and sensual and introspective and breathtaking experience . a the story go and in the early 1980s philip groning contact the roman catholic monk of the carthusian order and which be found in 1084 by st. bruno of cologne . the carthusian order be reportedly one of the strict order of the roman catholic church . although they do not take a vow of silence and the monk speak only when absolutely necessary and once weekly on walk outside their monastery . the monk tell groning it be premature and that they would contact him when the time be right . they get back to him nearly a decade and a half and tell him they be ready . he be tell that only he could enter the monastery and that he could only use natural light . he be also tell that there be no musical score or soundtrack . and on top of all that he be tell that there would be no interview and commentary . with all those restriction and however and philip groning say that those do not affect his intention for the film . so he spend several month live and work and and film over 120 hour of life in the french alp in the great charterhouse of the carthusian order . lord you have seduce me and and i be seduce . i wouldn not call into great silence a documentary and because the film into great silence be an experience . it play on every sense and it entrance you into use your intangible sens as well . it live up to it name a there be hardly any dialogue and interview . and there be absolutely no commentary and voice over . you do not hear a human voice until 20 minute into the film . but the rare human voice in the film make you appreciate the sound of nature that surround that quiet place in the french alp . you experience the poetry of the sound of the snow fall and melt and and drip . the sound of bell toll and rain drop create a melody . and the sound of monk footstep be like a serenade . but the gregorian chant sing by these monk be so hypnotic and haunting and and entrance that it seduce you to surrender to their world . and the film supply a cinematic visual buffet . this film must be see on the big screen . there be not one single frame in the film that can not be a featured photograph in some art museum . every shot stimulate the eye and which in turn stimulates your heartbeat to a rhythm and which make your body participate in that great silence . the occasional flash of bible verse and lord you have seduce me and and i be seduce and anyone who do not give up all he have can not be my disciple . create a time of pause for one to reflect . the narrative of the film follow several monk . one of them an african novice who give up everything he have to join the order . another and a young monk who have give up everything he own and be new to the order . but how much do they really give up . we be remind of the outside world by a single airliner fly above . and to contrast the silence of the monk we glimpse tourist or pilgrim from afar . the film also follow an elderly monk who take care of the garden and ground and a blind elderly monk at the end of his life . when one watch these monk and be draw into their life one see the joyfulness of their penitence . the rhythm of their life be as entrancing a the gregorian chant they sing . the peaceful serenity of their world and surroundings do indeed seduce one . the film do not aim to preach or teach . the film entrance you to experience the world of these monk a they honestly be . weather you agree with them or not one see the sincerity of their prayer and work and mass and ritual and and meal a poetic innocence . one can not help but experience personal joy a these monk slide down snowy slope with their shoe . and while these monk do give up everything they own and the nature that surround them be so breathtakingly priceless that one long to stay in that peaceful serene place in the french alp . into great silence be indeed a cinematic experience much more than a film documentary for entertainment or educational purpose . the almost three hour of rare dialogue have a very loud and clear point of view . this be how the monk give up everything so that they can be god disciple . and this be how god seduce them and why they be seduce . this be the world of the monk of the carthusian order . the almost three hour and although slow and be need so that one could immerse in those french alps with those faithful monk . and admittedly in the late part of the almost three hour film i be fidget . but when it be do . i have want to experience it all over again . lord you have seduce me and and i be seduce .