Outstanding piece of work

Rating: 10/10 (3 March 2016)

3 March 2016 Film of Choice at The Plaza Dorchester Tonight - Spotlight. This film was most definitely an Oscar winner. The script was outstanding, The actors were so enmeshed into their characters I found myself locked into the story from the get go. Any film that tackles socially taboo subjects is going to be hard to write, act and to sell to the public, Spotlight does all that as it tackles the emotive subject of abuse within the Catholic Church. The film follows the Spotlight team of the Boston Globe as they forage and delve down all possible avenues to uncover the story hidden for so many years. We share the horror and the disbelief as the scale of the cover ups come to light and get an insight as to how a good journalistic team can work together to find the correct facts and the best time and way to present them to the public. Spotlight was gripping and in no way uncomfortable to watch. I was rooting for The Danish Girl to win the Best Picture Oscar but having seen this film I realise it was a far superior offering and very worthy of the award. Absolute silence in the cinema as the film ended.