"SC-S31/W4-Movie Magic |Movies that challenge society: Spotlight|

This is a true story of how a scandal of child abuse was uncovered which was going on for ages in a local Catholic Archdiocese. When unearthed it shook the entire Catholic Church to its very core.

Watch a movie that speaks of injustice, challenging a norm or a culture and respond to the following

I will review Spotlight, a film that I watched way back and I believe it tackles what you asked in this contest's theme, injustice, challenge societal norms, and critique cultural issues. This movie draws real events and highlight them systematically the failures and push back against powerful institutions.

You can clearly see in this movie how it challenges set institutional norms by exposing the authorities trying to protect abusers over victims. For me, the way the team worked to bring reforms is praise worthy that brought injustice to book which were challenging societal norms.

Here are your questions

What social issue did the movie highlight?

This film might sound a bit controversial as it depicts The Boston Globe's investigative team which uncovers the Catholic Church's cover-up of child sexual abuse by priests in Boston.

You feel the way this movie exposed injustice exposing cultural norms to the very roots even if going off way or against the set norms of society but that makes this movies closer to your contest theme.

I will go a little deeper by saying "Spotlight" movie shows Boston Globe journalists unearthing the Catholic Church's shocking cover-up of priests abusing children in pure institutional rot where power covered up predators. It sure opened a pandora box in an unorthodox way but that's how it was.

• Lead Actors

Did it change how you see this issue?

Spotlight is a perfect movie as Marty Baron motivates all his team members to probe this abuse case against priest John Geoghan and Cardinal Law's cover-up.

9 years is a long time but I still remember a few dialogues like:

 
We gotta show people that nobody can get away with this. Not a priest, or a cardinal or a freaking pope! He said this to Walter 'Robby' Robinson during a heated discussion on pursuing Cardinal Law. Trust me I felt like it could be anyone including my kids.

To be exact, they uncover a number of priests 70 plus to be precise protected by reassignments and secrecy, battling legal hurdles and Church influence. The film shows journalism's toll, personal doubts, community pressure, yet unyielding truth-seeking.

Or,

Marty Baron: "Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around."

Phil Saviano: "You guys gotta understand. This is big. This is not just Boston. It's the whole country. It's the whole world. And it goes right up to the Vatican." (Emphasizing the scandal's scale).

How is this theme discussed this week relevant today?

Yes it does, because this film shows a real investigation held by a real team back in 2002 that brought into light what church leadership were shielding and protecting systematically so called priests in order to protect the reputation of this highest social institution.

The cover-up of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, as shown in the movie Spotlight, is a reality and the way it was brought to light stirred an ugly fact in a way which was hard to digest, considered unethical yet it brought lot of criticism.

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I invite @josepha @suboohi and @drax @weisser-rabe to bring your movie in this contest

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