Review of Spotlight (2015) by Brevin S — 18 Mar 2016

Spotlight is a film that shouldn't work on any level. This film has no flashbacks, no blood, no sex scenes and yet it deals with child sexual abuse that goes on every day in many churches and all over the world. Spotlight brings up the question of religion and puts it on trial making for a lot of powerful conversations that could make a person lose there faith in humanity and in the ideals that many of Americans believe about there on faiths.

Tom McCarthy makes this movie work so well. Allowing for each victim affected to tell there story in a way that never feels forced but instead like real people talking to each other. There are very few Oscar bait scenes as every character here feels like a real human being. Making this one truly amazing script.

Sadly the film can't help because of the nature and the choices they have made in not showing a lot of flashbacks or grotesque sex scenes that there are times when the characters are all just talking to each other and trying to uncover things that it can feel dull and there are just so many politics and things that stop the characters from going all in and making this story a reality and letting the people know.

Because of this I feel like this film did get some backlash from its Oscar wins because of all of these things. As powerful as the film is to some it may seem like a failure in there eyes, but it most certainly isn't.

Spotlight might not be my favorite film of 2015, but it defiantly deserves to be up there because of its powerful dialogue and script that makes it all the more interesting to see it unfold before our eyes.