The film portrays the work of the research team of the Globe Spotlight, which won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing how the Archdiocese of Boston covered up a case of abuse of minors by priests over many decades.
Venice, Italy.- Thomas McCarthy wants the pope Francisco go to the movies.
Specifically, the American director would like to see the pope his new film, “Spotlight,” based on a true story about sexual abuse in the Church and the cover-up by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Boston.
The film is starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams who give life to real reporters from the Boston Globe, and premiered Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.
McCarthy says he is excited and anxious for the first time to present the film to the public in Italy, an overwhelmingly Catholic country.
“I do not expect reaction of the Church,” he said. “I would love to prove otherwise. … I would love to see this Pope. “
The film portrays the work of the research team of the Globe Spotlight, which won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing how the Archdiocese of Boston covered up a case of abuse multiple minors by priests over decades.
From interviews with real journalists and survivors of abuse, it presents a powerful and subtle look at how evil can flourish in communities with people decent and well-meaning. In Boston, a predominantly Catholic and closed city, the families of the victims, police, lawyers and journalists knew about the abuse, but few decided to talk.
“It’s not just the church,” said Ruffalo told The Associated Press. “It’s the police and the legislature are politicians, it is the power structure of Boston. Arrives at a very deep level in the community and about us, it is us. “
Since the Globe published his articles in 2002, the sex abuse scandals religious have emerged from Iowa Ireland -. and most of the time after decades of silence
“A lot of this has to do with shame,” Tucci said. “The church is ashamed of what is happening and took the parents. Victims feel ashamed and families of the victims also simply creates a terrible world of secrets and lies “
Tucci -. Who grew up in a Catholic family but not a” true believer “- says is something “huge” that Pope Francis has spoken on the issue and promised to punish abusive religious besides hold church authorities for failing to protect children.
But McCarthy, an actor and director whose previous films include “The Station Agent” considers that the church will slowly change despite the good intentions of the Pope.
The film shows how the then archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Bernard Law, resigned when the Globe revealed that he had covered up the rapists of children, and after that Pope John Paul II gave an easy place in one of the main basilicas of the Vatican.
“If you assume command of such an institution sometimes the best intentions fall short, “McCarthy said. “So we’ll see.”
“Spotlight” joins a relatively short list of films showing reporters as heroes. From the drama of Watergate 1976 “All The President’s Men” none has film has portrayed so convincingly the unglamorous reality of the press, into archives, court hearings, patiently looking for elusive sources.
The film is set in 2001 and 2002 -. before the digital revolution shook the media-so it gives the feeling of being an elegy to the era of printed newspapers
McCarthy, who he played a reporter in “The Wire” HBO said working on the television series “aware I made the tough situation facing journalism in America” and the reduction of the daily and the Boston Globe, spacious whose partially empty offices were used in some scenes of “Spotlight”.
“The serious and professional journalism, the industry has been harmed in our country,” McCarthy said.
“Citizen journalists they can not solve these problems, they can tweet or put it on your Facebook page if they know, but do you have the months and weeks to be in the courts, the police and continue to interview people? No “.
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