Raised with a religious family, religion seemed to be a routine instead of voluntary faith. Every Sunday morning, a thunderous sound from the church bell is always rung indicating that a mass was about to start. Dressed by one of my four pairs of my usual “church appropriate” clothes that alternated every week, I took my time to groom myself preparing for today’s mass. Before stepping outside of my room, I gazed at myself at the mirror, pondering if I’m going to do this for the rest of my life. Spotlight by Tom McCarthy is a based on a true story about investigative journalists from Boston Globe covering an extremely sensitive case against Catholic Church. Marty Baron, a newly hired editor opens up an issue that every Bostonian citizen seemed
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Evidently, Spotlight did an outstanding job investigating a serious issue and showing how it affected each of their lives, which is what a journalistic drama is. When watching Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, blind allegiance to faith fortifies why members of the Boston community protect the Catholic Church, since the Catholic Church is seen as charitable to the community and it took an outsider to uncover the truth.
To start, Catholicism’s charitable contributions over Boston caused its citizens to be blind in faith. Having approximately 90% of its population to be Catholics, Boston’s bond with Catholicism is exceedingly strong, for why this religion is also protected by the city. Given the Catholic Charities Gala scene as an example, Robby Robinson discusses MacLeish’s cases about priests who had molested children with Jim Sullivan. The scene begins with at the charity event with a quick tracking shot of Robby heading over to Jim, welcoming him as both of them shook hands. A medium close up of both of them follows as Jim starts the conversation by claiming “I met your [Robby’s] new editor.” Sighing after a gulp of his beer, Robby brings up in interesting conversation between him and MacLeish. “Turns out he’s been settling abuse cases with the Archdioceses …show more content…
During the beginning of the movie, the Geoghan case wasn 't payed much attention to and opening up to it seemed skeptical to its journalists and reporters. The scene starts out at a setting of an office meeting and a medium shot of Marty Baron proposing a new newspaper topic. Baron started by asking "did anyone read Eileen McNamara 's column this weekend?". Looking uncertain with her head tilted, a lady next to him asked "That 's the Geoghan case?". A cut of Baron 's side view followed as he replied "Yeah, what 's the follow on that?". A rack focus of Ben Bradlee Jr comes next, reacting to what Baron said by saying "It 's a column, what kind of follow were you thinking?" with his head shaking a little bit and his palm widened as a gesture. The camera focused back to Baron as he provided more information about the specific topic, saying "Well, apparently this priest molested kids". Baron went on specifying how Cardinal Law is aware of this issue but unfortunately did nothing. This discussion went on as Baron desired to go open up the case by "going through those documents" which are currently sealed. Another staff asked "how would you like to do that?". Without a doubt, Baron replies ".. we would go to court". Back at Bradlee 's rack focus, he hesitantly asked "You want to sue the church?". With a reaction
Evidently, Spotlight did an outstanding job investigating a serious issue and showing how it affected each of their lives, which is what a journalistic drama is. When watching Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, blind allegiance to faith fortifies why members of the Boston community protect the Catholic Church, since the Catholic Church is seen as charitable to the community and it took an outsider to uncover the truth.
To start, Catholicism’s charitable contributions over Boston caused its citizens to be blind in faith. Having approximately 90% of its population to be Catholics, Boston’s bond with Catholicism is exceedingly strong, for why this religion is also protected by the city. Given the Catholic Charities Gala scene as an example, Robby Robinson discusses MacLeish’s cases about priests who had molested children with Jim Sullivan. The scene begins with at the charity event with a quick tracking shot of Robby heading over to Jim, welcoming him as both of them shook hands. A medium close up of both of them follows as Jim starts the conversation by claiming “I met your [Robby’s] new editor.” Sighing after a gulp of his beer, Robby brings up in interesting conversation between him and MacLeish. “Turns out he’s been settling abuse cases with the Archdioceses …show more content…
During the beginning of the movie, the Geoghan case wasn 't payed much attention to and opening up to it seemed skeptical to its journalists and reporters. The scene starts out at a setting of an office meeting and a medium shot of Marty Baron proposing a new newspaper topic. Baron started by asking "did anyone read Eileen McNamara 's column this weekend?". Looking uncertain with her head tilted, a lady next to him asked "That 's the Geoghan case?". A cut of Baron 's side view followed as he replied "Yeah, what 's the follow on that?". A rack focus of Ben Bradlee Jr comes next, reacting to what Baron said by saying "It 's a column, what kind of follow were you thinking?" with his head shaking a little bit and his palm widened as a gesture. The camera focused back to Baron as he provided more information about the specific topic, saying "Well, apparently this priest molested kids". Baron went on specifying how Cardinal Law is aware of this issue but unfortunately did nothing. This discussion went on as Baron desired to go open up the case by "going through those documents" which are currently sealed. Another staff asked "how would you like to do that?". Without a doubt, Baron replies ".. we would go to court". Back at Bradlee 's rack focus, he hesitantly asked "You want to sue the church?". With a reaction