Jack Bergquist
Period 6
4-22-19
“Spotlight” Review
Catholic churches may seem innocent from the outside and you may never expect any wrong but for 2001 Boston 90 plus nearly 6% of Boston’s 1500 priests were molesting boys and girls around the city. The spotlight Crew at the Boston Globe investigated and exposed these cases.
“Spotlight” the 2015 film about the Boston Globe “Spotlight” crew exposing the Catholic churches in Boston is in common relation to the 1976 film “All The President’s Men.” The film goes into deep detail about what some priests were doing to young boys in girls apart of the church, and in Boston with nearly 1500 churches there were a lot of cases. Spotlight (a small group of journalists at the Globe) worked for several months exposing these cases and bring down the Catholic Church’s coverup.
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The movie did a better job of a more accurate modern representation of what a journalist truly does compared to the 1976 “All The President’s Men.” Director Tom McCarthy does a great job of casting actors to play his roles. Mark Ruffalo plays one of the main journalists on team spotlight and he does a very good job of filling your expectation of a journalist, working late most nights, having a crappy apartment, and eating leftovers and hotdogs most night with full focus on the case.
A scene that stood out to me personally was when they were interviewing some of the victims of these cases, you can feel the emotion in their words and how much this incident affected them. Team Spotlight interviews many of these victims as they paint a vivid picture in your mind which really makes you realize the severity of these cases.
There are a lot of quality camera air shots of downtown Boston.The set of the teams office paints a good picture of where they were working throughout the story. The director does a good job of making the whole story flow there are not any points where two scenes don’t match up or you feel like a peice of the story is missing.
Overall “Spotlight” is a great film. The viewer gets a pretty good visualization of a journalists point of view in a story like this. I highly recommend this movie for young adults or older due to some vulgar language and vivid description throughout the film but nothing too bad. Spotlight is a great movie. 8/10.
I chose this story because I really liked the movie and felt very passionate about writing the story as a whole. I also thought there was a lot of easy resources at my disposable to find sources and quotes about the movie. As a whole I thought this was one of my better pieces of writing and wanted to add it to the page.
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