Courageous journalism

Rating: 8/10 (11 February 2016)

A reporters team of a Boston newspaper engage themselves in investigating deeply the scandal of pedophilia practised by some Catholic priests on children supposed to be guarded and protected by them. They intend to publish the investigation results afterwards. What begins to look like just only a handful of cases becomes to reveal itself a practice of systematic abuse of lots of children in several places in the country during many years with the covering of high placed members of the hierarchy. The team comes upon several obstacles, from the more or less disguised opposition of the Church members to occultation attempts by lawyers who took part in private and half secret settlements between some victims and the hierarchy, passing through occultation of important documentary evidence (not only by lawyers) and the resistance of some victims to talk about their cases. Everything is shown in this movie in an almost documentary style with great fluidity and dynamism and very elucidative of what has really happened since this was a real case.