The Oscar winning
film Spotlight is easily one of the most important,
powerful films of the last few years.
Spotlight is the factual drama of how in 2002 a Boston Globe team of investigative reporters exposed more than 200 paedophile clergy in that city alone. It was the first major newspaper reporting on clerical abuse worldwide. It shocked the USA, indeed the world, and brought to public attention the protection of abusers by senior clerics and the silencing of victims and their families by the church and its lawyers.
The Spotlight epic has worldwide implications, including within New Zealand.
For many viewers the most disturbing and shocking moment of the film is when the list of cities from around the world, where this kind of clerical abuse had occurred, is screened. Numerous Australian and New Zealand cities are featured. To the uninitiated that list of cities is horrifying.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1603/S00299/shining-the-light-on-new-zealands-historic-child-abuse.htm
Spotlight is the factual drama of how in 2002 a Boston Globe team of investigative reporters exposed more than 200 paedophile clergy in that city alone. It was the first major newspaper reporting on clerical abuse worldwide. It shocked the USA, indeed the world, and brought to public attention the protection of abusers by senior clerics and the silencing of victims and their families by the church and its lawyers.
The Spotlight epic has worldwide implications, including within New Zealand.
For many viewers the most disturbing and shocking moment of the film is when the list of cities from around the world, where this kind of clerical abuse had occurred, is screened. Numerous Australian and New Zealand cities are featured. To the uninitiated that list of cities is horrifying.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1603/S00299/shining-the-light-on-new-zealands-historic-child-abuse.htm