Synopsis
SPOTLIGHT
tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe
investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's
oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious
"Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the
Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up
at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government
establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by
Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy, SPOTLIGHT is a tense investigative
dramatic-thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest cover-ups in modern
times.
The film is also beautifully acted. Save for a brief detail here or there, barely any information is divulged about the characters’ personal lives, and yet Ruffalo, McAdams and Keaton – and the cast as a whole – give us a real sense of who these people are simply by looking at them through the prism of their professions. Doing the job well is all that matters here. False heroics aren’t required.
ReplyDeleteThe movie has a real respect for the value of this kind of work and the film is in part a story about journalism entering the digital age and the possible ramifications of that.
ReplyDeleteSpotlight, movie dramatizes with engrossing exactitude the Boston Globe’s 2001 investigation into the Catholic Church cover-up of pedophiles priests in the Boston area.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, cutting back and forth between similar, more or less simultaneous scenes of the investigation being one of the few structural flourishes the film allows itself.
ReplyDeleteThere are two story but with the option of only one story to be written on the newspaper for the public. Choose the truth or the realistic story?
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