2015 movies <the end of the tour> and <the spotlight># LeisureTime - 读书听歌看电影
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1. The end of the tour
Watching the end of the tour reminded me of those months of intense and
sacred dfw reading experience. Maybe he is just another depressed writer and
tortured soul for the general public. However his persistence in describing
the human experience, what it means to be alive, and how reading and
writing is the only way for one to feel less alone, makes him both the
perfect encapsulation and forboder of our era.
2. The spotlight
I was really intrigued by the NPR interview with the creators and one of the
original reporters:
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/29/452805058/film-shines-a-spotlight
For us who are non-religious, the story itself is simply jaw-dropping.
Statistically, 50% of all priests are non-celibate, 6% of them could have
been child molesters, and what is really revelatory is when towards the end,
one of the priest justs plainly admitted his 'fooling-around', and thought
he knew its difference from 'rape', because he himself was raped at a young
age! I wish the movie had revealed more details of these cases and victims,
but considering the extend to which the Church had tried to cover it up (the
Pope did apologize formally recently), and how many Catholics looked the
other way when these scandals were going on, the movie probably would not
have seen the daylight had it not been treading this line carefully.
Watching the end of the tour reminded me of those months of intense and
sacred dfw reading experience. Maybe he is just another depressed writer and
tortured soul for the general public. However his persistence in describing
the human experience, what it means to be alive, and how reading and
writing is the only way for one to feel less alone, makes him both the
perfect encapsulation and forboder of our era.
2. The spotlight
I was really intrigued by the NPR interview with the creators and one of the
original reporters:
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/29/452805058/film-shines-a-spotlight
For us who are non-religious, the story itself is simply jaw-dropping.
Statistically, 50% of all priests are non-celibate, 6% of them could have
been child molesters, and what is really revelatory is when towards the end,
one of the priest justs plainly admitted his 'fooling-around', and thought
he knew its difference from 'rape', because he himself was raped at a young
age! I wish the movie had revealed more details of these cases and victims,
but considering the extend to which the Church had tried to cover it up (the
Pope did apologize formally recently), and how many Catholics looked the
other way when these scandals were going on, the movie probably would not
have seen the daylight had it not been treading this line carefully.
