“Spotlight” sheds new light on a scandal that made headlines in 2002,
when a team of Boston Globe reporters revealed the extent of child abuse
by local priests and the Archdiocese’s attempts to cover it up. The
film elicits outrage, but how many viewers do anything about it? It’s
only a movie, and like most Hollywood movies, things seem resolved in
the end.
But in the real world, things are not resolved. As is pointed out in “Who Takes Away the Sins . . . : Witnesses to Clergy Abuse” (2013) and “A Matter of Conscience: Confronting Clergy Abuse” (2014), documentaries by the husband and wife team of John and Susan Michalczyk, the abuse goes on and lives are still shattered. And when you watch these films, in which victims tell their stories and talk of a violation that will never heal, you can’t walk away and pretend they are only actors on a screen.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2015/11/28/the-bad-shepherds/cHY7s8I512BTjEi2x3AW9J/story.html
But in the real world, things are not resolved. As is pointed out in “Who Takes Away the Sins . . . : Witnesses to Clergy Abuse” (2013) and “A Matter of Conscience: Confronting Clergy Abuse” (2014), documentaries by the husband and wife team of John and Susan Michalczyk, the abuse goes on and lives are still shattered. And when you watch these films, in which victims tell their stories and talk of a violation that will never heal, you can’t walk away and pretend they are only actors on a screen.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2015/11/28/the-bad-shepherds/cHY7s8I512BTjEi2x3AW9J/story.html