Spotlight (2015)
When you detect something nasty happening in a system that seems to do a lot of good work, do you tell yourselves to look at the bigger picture and turn a blind eye or do you expose it no matter how trivial? Do you want to be a whistleblower and meet all its challenges to proof your words? Is it personal glory you are looking for? Is it your God sent duty to ensure justice is done on Earth? If truth is so strong, why does it not always prevail? Or is it proving itself through you? Are you that special? How far would you go to right the wrong which appears only in your eyes?
Like the Watergate expose of Nixon’s wrongdoings, this film is based on the work of the team of Boston Global journalists who embarked on a journey of investigative journalism to proof the sexual mischief of many Catholic priests in the Massachusetts and the plot to sweep these misdeeds under the carpet.
As the work may potentially tarnish the image of something dear to many people’s hearts, there is reluctance and resistance at many levels. With persistence and the help of a seemingly unbiased legal system, the team managed to bring the dirt into the open. Along the way, the journalists, some who are staunch churchgoers also question their faith. They soon realise that by revealing their wrongdoings, they are only tarnishing a man-made system, not the faith.
Unlike most Hollywood movies that go overboard to make a martyr of their heroes, the players in the flick are level-headed and not portrayed in dramatic fashion.
When you detect something nasty happening in a system that seems to do a lot of good work, do you tell yourselves to look at the bigger picture and turn a blind eye or do you expose it no matter how trivial? Do you want to be a whistleblower and meet all its challenges to proof your words? Is it personal glory you are looking for? Is it your God sent duty to ensure justice is done on Earth? If truth is so strong, why does it not always prevail? Or is it proving itself through you? Are you that special? How far would you go to right the wrong which appears only in your eyes?
Like the Watergate expose of Nixon’s wrongdoings, this film is based on the work of the team of Boston Global journalists who embarked on a journey of investigative journalism to proof the sexual mischief of many Catholic priests in the Massachusetts and the plot to sweep these misdeeds under the carpet.
As the work may potentially tarnish the image of something dear to many people’s hearts, there is reluctance and resistance at many levels. With persistence and the help of a seemingly unbiased legal system, the team managed to bring the dirt into the open. Along the way, the journalists, some who are staunch churchgoers also question their faith. They soon realise that by revealing their wrongdoings, they are only tarnishing a man-made system, not the faith.
Unlike most Hollywood movies that go overboard to make a martyr of their heroes, the players in the flick are level-headed and not portrayed in dramatic fashion.
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