Brown Motion

This spring has been good in terms of getting to watch some good film-making.  We watched 'Room'; 'Bridge of Spies'; and then this latest one called 'Spotlight'. Spotlight is titled after an investigation and research team that works inside the Boston Globe, a 150 plus year old newspaper (today owned by a private wealthy investor).   This bunch of veteran journalists in Boston broke the story on the Sex Abuse Scandal that has infected the global Catholic Church system. This major news item was published on the front pages in 2002 after a couple years of hard investigative journalism.  While the screenplay is representative of the reality and the number of investigators it took to uncover these sad truths about child abuse and molestation of the nth degree by god's chosen few, it does shine the spotlight on the hypocrisy that we live in. While the Boston natives were themselves stunned to learn of the evil lurking in their place of worship, and the var...