Spotlight or the power of investigative journalism

"It's very hard to say no to God," explains the victim of a "paedophile" priest, interviewed by a journalist from the Boston Globe as part of the Spotlight investigation team, which gives the title to Tom McCarthy's film released in US-theatres this January 27th, 2016 and which can be seen all around the globe.

An impeccable Hollywoodian  film that recreates as closely as possible the investigation led by these journalists on a very sensitive issue: the protection offered for thirty years by the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, Bernard Law, to the priests of his diocese, perpetrators of sexual abuse of children. If in 2003 the Spotlight journalists obtained the Pulitzer Prize for their investigation, the film about their feat has won 9 awards to date, starting with the Oscar for best film, and will certainly obtain others, at the next Cannes Festival, for instance.

To attack the most vulnerable

Religion and sex, two taboos, which supposedly has nothing to do with each other. Whenever they meet, the result is explosive. The "civilized" world, which is so shocked by the primitive barbarism of "Jihad alnnikah" [gender jihad] of the "Islamic State" is struggling to confront his own turpitude, such as those misnamed paedophile priests. Paedophile means "someone who loves children"; however, those priests who abuse children, boys and girls, ranging from fondling to rape sometimes followed by murder, do not do it because they love children, but only because they know they can take advantage of the weak and vulnerable. These predators are paedocriminals, period! SNAP [Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests], the association of victims of abuse by priests, now has over 12,000 members in 56 countries, which gives an idea of the scale of the phenomenon, which has nothing marginal about it.
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Spotlight o il potere del giornalismo investigativo

“È molto difficile dire di no a Dio”, spiega la vittima di un prete “pedofilo” intervistata da una giornalista del Boston Globe che fa parte del team investigativo Spotlight da cui deriva il titolo del film di Tom Mc Carthy uscito nelle sale dei cinema il 27 gennaio di quest’anno negli Stati Uniti e che si può vedere in tutti gli angoli del pianeta.  

Un impeccabile film hollywoodiano che ricostruisce il più fedelmente possibile la lunga inchiesta condotta da questi giornalisti su un tema alquanto sensibile, ovvero la protezione offerta per tre decenni dal cardinale-arcivescovo di Boston, Bernard Law, ai preti della sua diocesi colpevoli di abusi sessuali di bambini. I giornalisti nel 2003 per la loro inchiesta hanno ottenuto il Premio Pulitzer. Il film che li ha messi in scena, al giorno d'oggi ha sbancato ben 9 premi, iniziando con l’Oscar per il miglior film, e ne otterrà sicuramente degli altri, in particolare al prossimo Festival di Cannes.
La religione e il sesso sono due temi tabu, che si sa bene non hanno nulla a che vedere l’uno con l’altro. E ogni volta che si incontrano, si ottiene un risultato esplosivo.
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Spotlight oder die Macht des investigativen Journalismus

„Gott nein zu sagen fällt schwer“, erklärt das Opfer eines „pädophilen“ Priesters, in einem Interview durch eine Journalistin des Ermittlungsteams Spotlight des Boston Globe, nach dem der Film von Tom Mc Carthy betitelt ist. Dieser kam am 27. Januar dieses Jahres in den US-Kinos heraus und kann nun weltweit gesehen werden.

Ein tadelloser Hollywoodfilm, der so wahrheitsgetreu  wie möglich die langzeitige Recherche rekonstruiert, die von diesen Journalisten über dieses so heikle Thema geführt wurde. Es ging um den dreißigjährigen Schutz, den der Kardinal und Erzbischof von Boston, Bernard Law den Priestern seiner Diözese gewährleistete, die sich die sich des sexuellen Missbrauchs an Kindern schuldig gemacht hatten. 2003 erhielten die Journalisten für ihre Recherchearbeit den Pulitzerpreis. Der Film über sie hat schon 9 Preise gewonnen. Der erste davon war der Oscar für den besten Film. Mit Sicherheit wird er noch andere Preise gewinnen, vor allem beim kommenden Festival von Cannes.
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass Religion und Sexualität sind Tabuthemen und haben wie bekannt nichts miteinander zu tun. Und jedes Mal, wenn sie sich treffen, knallt es.
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