"Spotlight" movie review

Thanks to modern technology, you can now watch current movies in your home, on your TV, for about the same price you would pay to see it in a theater.  Cheaper, actually.

Just watched "Spotlight", up for best movie of the year, with a great ensemble cast.  Based on facts, it is about the Boston Globe uncovering the huge scandal of priests abusing children in the Boston area, but it goes way beyond that.  The cover-up was massive, as was the abuse.

It's a very good movie, nothing about it is sensationalized, or emotionalized. It really shows  how the process works in a newspaper, uncovering details one at a time, checking sources, acknowledging incremental evidence.  (Well, I would have no way of knowing if this is how it's actually done in the newspaper business, but from what I have read, it is fairly authentic.)  It takes place 15 years ago, when print newspapers were not broaching the edge of antiquity as they are now.

The story is important and it is treated as such, and they do not shy away from the fact that the story was buried over and over  because of the power of the Catholic church. The last line of spoken dialogue in the movie will sum it all up for you and will make you either cry or moan out loud and shake your head.  See it.  

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