Saturday, October 15, 2016

Film pertinence

Maybe I should watch the whole of Spotlight.

"There have been lots of fictional Bostons, but “Spotlight” is the rare film with a sense of the city’s clannishness. And McCarthy is finely attuned to the ways in which Boston’s tribal culture both made victims vulnerable and could be used to discredit anyone who dared to challenge its institutions and priorities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/11/13/spotlight-is-a-great-movie-about-rape-and-culture/?utm_term=.c6b8632093fa

"McCarthy and his fellow screenwriter, Josh Singer, did their own reporting to create the film’s script, revisiting the reporters’ methods and even breaking a crucial piece of news of their own, revealing that the Globe missed a chance to advance the abuse story as far back as 1993."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/spotlight-joins-all-the-presidents-men-in-the-pantheon-of-great-journalism-movies/2015/11/12/a4e9e7a6-86ed-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html?tid=kp_google

This weekend has not been like last weekend. No young men on dimly lit streets yelling at me to help them...




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