Thoughts on "Spotlight"
Last week my husband and I saw the movie "Spotlight". The basic premise is this: it's a true story about a team of reporters called "Spotlight" within the Boston Globe who research and publish the truth about the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. Yes, I know, great date night movie. But it was good. Difficult to watch, but good. Well made, great casting, and overall a good job handling a difficult subject. If you have not watched "Spotlight", I would recommend it. Not because I liked the content of the movie, but because of the way it portrays that difficult content and leaves us unable to pretend that sexual abuse doesn't happen even in [what we would deem] the safest of places. And hopefully we can react not in fear but in fervor of action and prevention. That hopefully it would raise our awareness and motivate us into action to prevent such things from happening as much as is in our ability to do so. I've had so man...