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Spotlight (film)

Spotlight (film)

Spotlight (film)

Spotlight (film)

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Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catho

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"When youre a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot. And when a priest pays attention to you, its a big deal. He asks you to collect the hymnals or take out the trash, you feel special. Its like God asking for help. So maybe its a little weird when he tells you a dirty joke, but now you got a secret together, so you go along. Then he shows you a porno mag, and you go along. And you go along, and you go along, until one day he asks you to jerk him off or give him a blow job. And so you go along with that, too, because you feel trapped, because he has groomed you. How do you say no to God, right? See, it is important to understand that this is not just physical abuse, its spiritual abuse, too. And when a priest does this to you, he robs you of your faith. So you reach for the bottle or the needle. Or if those dont work, you jump off a bridge. Thats why we call ourselves survivors."
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