Splendid Torch and Mighty Cause

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 2015)

Speak up, speak up, speak up! The only one you will scare away is your future x parishioner or the Motion Picture Academy.
"A film like Spotlight is the refresh button. The acting is not visible and the script follows like a real conversation"
The Globe reporters practiced what every good therapist practices: mirroring, reflecting, validating and empowering what happened to these adults being sexually abused as children within the Catholic Church.
The reporters helped to break the hypnotic trance of "it never happened" which perpetuates the cycle of sexual abuse..
The reporters interviewing style also made me remember the importance of not explaining away an adult child's negative feelings.
As a side note the news reporters negatively named and interpreted a child's trauma in the true story "Room" which caused the child more trauma.
The film showed trauma of sexual spiritual abuse as being unique to each individual.
One victim commented that the priest who sexually abused him was the first person to validate that it is okay to be gay. Fatherless and in poverty this parishioner was the only person he had in his life.
Other victims displayed arms filled with burn marks and/or puncture wounds from drug use. Full of self loathing because their bodies enjoyed the sex and the attention they received.
Other victims believed they they are gay because that was the first sexual experience they had. Others knew that they were gay before the sexual abuse.
Reporter played by Mark Ruffalo played a splendid cause and mighty torch for the atrocities of the systemic spiritual sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church. He may in real life been sexually abused by a priest. He plays a convincing role!
Sexually abused children often go into a hypnotic trance to keep the abuse a secret and know what it feels like to be in perpetrators shoes. They will often grow up to be caught in reenactment to master the trauma as victims or perpetrators. They will often have intrusive thoughts.
The priest who stated that he did not receive any gratification by raping a young boy was still caught up in the hypnotic trance. It was like it never happened as he said you see I was also raped.
This is broadcast journalism at its finest! It doesn't matter if it was The Globe or The Phoenix who bore witness to this story.
Am now wondering if Tom Mc Carthy and John Singer will be blacklisted from making another film?