Saturday, August 06, 2016
Hometown paper
It took me awhile to see this painfully pointed film.
In which the Boston Globe Spotlight Team uncovers and prints a major series of stories about the clerical abuse that has raged for years in the Catholic Diocese.
We were there at that time. In fact we knew one of the priests from meeting him at a gay resort. Paul Shanley the "street priest" who had one of his boys in tow.
Very interesting guy. A vision of evil.
By now this is well known, the web of abuse cases stretching across the world but this is the first place that the lid came off the box.
There are many familiar scenes of Boston. No movie sets here. The acting is superb. And for a "talkie" film where there is a dense accumulation of data and structure it cuts straight to the center.
A would be willing to see it again making it a 4 out of Netflix5.
