Silence

Last class we spent a lot of time talking about silence and lack of space.  "10,000 Hours of Looking" (or whatever it was called) and things of that sort.  

There is a Polish movie called "Roza" (2011).  Here's the synopsis from IMDb.

A harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose husband, a German soldier, was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. The law of the jungle had replaced the rule of law. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who survived the Warsaw uprising and is attempting to hide his identity.

At the 1:21:30 mark, the main character is arrested and is tortured for ten years.  However, for the most part, the audience doesn't see any of this torture.  We only see his face get more beat up, but we never see the actual action.  This silence makes the scene more powerful, because the torture that the audience imagines for Tadeusz is even worse than what the director could have come up with.