Uncovering Systemic Pedophilia: A movie review of 'Spotlight'

First and foremost, I want to say that this movie and review is not attacking the Catholic Church or any religion in any way, shape, or form. If you know, know of, or even have children yourself, this movie review will hit home and open your eyes. Even if you don’t you’ll be able to understand and relate to the issues they bring up in this movie to your everyday life. These issues include favoritism, entitlement, privilege, buddy-buddy hook-ups, quid pro quo (this for that), the list goes on. Let’s get started and you’ll be able to see what I’m talking about.

Spotlight is a very small team of investigative journalists that are a part of the Boston Globe newspaper. They tackle challenging stories that could take a year or more to investigate so they can report it with as much accuracy as possible. A new editor comes to the paper and starts go through previous articles and investigations that were written. He stumbles across a story about a priest who had molested 80 children and wants to dig deeper.  He assigns Spotlight to the story and they go deep into the community by talking to victims, unsealing court documents, and challenging the Catholic Church as a whole.

They state in the movie that Boston is 60% catholic and almost everybody is involved with the church in one way or another. While the investigation was going on they found out that there was an enormous number of priests and children involved and that almost all the priest involved were still active. Needless to say this movie will keep you interested and have you thinking beyond your viewing of this movie.