No matter what happens at the Oscars, the very best film of 2015 was
“Spotlight,” the improbable drama of how a team of newspaper reporters
painstakingly revealed an institutional cover-up of child sexual abuse
in the Catholic Church. The film’s excellence lay not only in its superb
acting and storytelling, but in the way it humanized without
sensationalizing the lasting pain of child abuse.
Who can forget the scene of a tough Bostonian recounting how a priest molested him when he was a vulnerable youngster? His confusion, embarrassment and shame were laid bare on the screen before us, allowing us to viscerally understand how it can take years for a young victim to comprehend what happened and to muster the courage to challenge a figure of religious authority.
http://forward.com/opinion/329920/lets-reform-sex-abuse-laws-to-offer-justice-not-protect-predators/
Who can forget the scene of a tough Bostonian recounting how a priest molested him when he was a vulnerable youngster? His confusion, embarrassment and shame were laid bare on the screen before us, allowing us to viscerally understand how it can take years for a young victim to comprehend what happened and to muster the courage to challenge a figure of religious authority.
http://forward.com/opinion/329920/lets-reform-sex-abuse-laws-to-offer-justice-not-protect-predators/