Spotlight | Based on a True Story

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8 жыл бұрын

Spotlight is a revealing look at the Catholic molestation scandal of 2002. This film had me floored. Whatever problems it has, they do not affect the narrative, and that narrative is surprising. I remember this scandal from when I was kid, but I had no idea how bad it really was, and this movie reveals it well. It has a couple misleading things about it, but it is a good “Based on a True Story” movie.
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Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.[4][5] The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States,[6] and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. It is based on a series of stories by the "Spotlight" team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[7] The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup.[8]
Spotlight was shown in the Out of Competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.[9] It was also shown at the Telluride Film Festival and the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[10] The film was released on November 6, 2015, by Open Road Films and grossed $90 million worldwide.[3] It won numerous guilds and critics' association awards, and was named one of the finest films of 2015 by various publications. Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture along with Best Original Screenplay from six nominations in total, making Spotlight the first film from Open Road Films to win in either category. This also marks the first film to win Best Picture from a different mini-major studio than Lionsgate, Summit (later bought by Lionsgate in 2012), Miramax, or TWC.
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@Spongebrain97 5 жыл бұрын

I felt the most shocking moment in the film was where one of the journalists finds a lists of pedo priests and their names and he found out one lived in his neighborhood and he freaks out and jogs outside to go look at his house

@colonelweird 3 жыл бұрын

The reason this movie wasn't attacked by church authorities is simply because, by the time it came out, they knew they had lost the PR war. So they were busy trying to change their image to something slightly less ridiculous and monstrous than usual. However I think anyone who takes any statement by a church official at face value is incredibly naive. They strenuously resisted any real change because they were comfortable with the system as it was. They didn't care about the kids being molested, and it's absurd to think public pressure made them start caring.

@Wonedge 8 жыл бұрын

Well done. I think it should also bear mention that the aftermath of the revelations, and the lawsuits filed by the victims caused the diocese of Boston to file for bankruptcy. A number of other dioceses were also forced to file for bankruptcy and parishioners all over the country are paying for the settlements with victims. I also want to emphasize that newspapers are consolidating and merging still and I saw an estimate that almost 40% of journalists, most of them experienced have lost their jobs in the past 10 years. (Bureau of Labor Standards employment categories)

@fraserclayton7468 6 жыл бұрын

It's genuinely one of the best films I've ever seen

@6thwilbury2331 6 жыл бұрын

Found this channel via History Buffs (yeah I was late to that, too). Great video, I literally added 24 of your videos to my Watch Later. Cynical Historian binge tonight!

@Vivalarosa45 7 жыл бұрын

Do - Straight Outta Compton

@studogable 2 жыл бұрын

9:20 - the Church's most "massive" response, certainly in the Boston area, has been to sell or otherwise monetize their property holdings to settle lawsuits. I'm not sure that there is virtue, or even repentance, in being brought to accountability at the point of a gun.

@vancorelamere1188 5 жыл бұрын

I'm watching this two years later, and this scandale just got way worse like a week ago. I wonder how the movie about that stuffs gonna look

@kmzstube 7 жыл бұрын

I watched this movie on your recommendation. I hadn't been planning to otherwise, thinking that an inaccurate film about such a topic would be really unhelpful. It was quite a good film, and I really like the piano score.

@ren17x50 2 жыл бұрын

The Boys of St Vincent is a Canadian movie of similar subject done very well

@banalMinuta 8 жыл бұрын

Bloody well done m8, as always. I would suggest that you review "Amen." (2002).

@TheNeonShift 4 жыл бұрын

My college professor linked your video. You are KZfaq goals LOL! btw, great vid

@thesamuraihobbit 8 жыл бұрын

Can you do Downfall?

@jesusgonzalez6715 6 жыл бұрын

I think - but am no expert on this - that Downfall's main problems fall into the "lies of omission" category - as in, characters that come off sympathetically were actually really really bad and involved in a lot of atrocities, but the movie does not mention it even in the "where are they now" montage...

@highwind1991 6 жыл бұрын

The characters don't have much to them and the filmmaking is lacking, but this is one of those times where the story it tells, along with the great casting and pacing make up for it.

@unhhgcrxexhjvuvujchcrzwzwz7956 7 жыл бұрын

I really do love the Catholic Church and I am really glad to see that they took this movie well.

@crozraven 7 жыл бұрын

When the top one ignored and highly possibly involved, no shit it's systematic. The whole pedophilia ring and this kind of crimes for institutions birthed from abused/victim becoming the abuser and it goes on and on like a downward spiral into the abyss. the most scary part of this movie isn't from some of the brilliant and intimate scenes but when the movie finally end and it shows the location list of the probability of many uncovered cases of abuses throughout the world before the end credits roll. It shows we common people only knows so little to none.

@thevinylbird2269 4 жыл бұрын

Would you consider reviewing A Man For All Seasons?

@adheeshlp 8 жыл бұрын

Can you analyze "Battle of Algiers"?

@calebjeffreys3046 8 жыл бұрын

you should review Glory Road next!

@IroniChristian 7 жыл бұрын

I recall that the lawyer alex macleisch said that the film is excellent but his portrayal is incorrect is their any evidence that goes against that.

@CynicalHistorian 7 жыл бұрын

+Christian browne people often take issue with their characterization, but don't contravene the narrative. Character is a subjective thing, and without some district issue with evidence, no historian can really say

@IroniChristian 7 жыл бұрын

okay

@killian9314 6 жыл бұрын

This movie was really good, except it did not deserve Best Picture, Mad Max with its d Horrid story was actully a farely innovative for the genre and filmmaking, which is what an oscar movie should be, Sicario deserved best Picture

@jomiy1199 Жыл бұрын

I don't really understand why they wanted to have calls in the end. Why do you think that they wanted so?

@bbbabrock 5 жыл бұрын

Men like sex. Sex is easier to obtain if one is in a position of power and authority. What better position of authority can one have than a man telling children that they are that child's intercesser for god?

@JarodFarrant 18 күн бұрын

But you say makes sense, I’ll trust a child with a velociraptor before I trust theme with clergy.

@chonchjohnch 4 жыл бұрын

Hollywood shone a spotlight on the Catholic Church while ignoring Harvey Weinstein for years lmfao

@Sketchman911 6 жыл бұрын

2:31 holy shit I live really close to Manchester NH

@ghiribizzi 8 жыл бұрын

this was years before the dot Com bubble exploded so everything about Internet was over stated

@thejokersonyou 6 жыл бұрын

Michael Keaton... better in the last 20yrs than the previous?

@Spongebrain97 5 жыл бұрын

thejokersonyou yup

@nellgwenn 4 жыл бұрын

Did you ever see Call Northside 777?

@CynicalHistorian 4 жыл бұрын

I haven't heard of it before

@nellgwenn 4 жыл бұрын

@@CynicalHistorian It's a 1948 Film Noir movie starring Jimmy Stewart. It is an investigating journalist movie. Based on a true story. The real journalist that Jimmy Stewart plays also got a Pulitzer for his reporting which sent 2 men free from a murder they didn't commit. It's kind of clunky, but I believe it's that first step to films such as All The President's Men, or Spotlight. There is even a section toward the end of the movie which talks about the forerunner of a fax machine. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mK1_gpyBy7yqcps.html You probably won't think it would be review material, yet it is interesting.