Spotlight Film Analysis

The lead editor of Spotlight Walter "Robby" Robinson stated, “It’s like everyone knows the story, except us and we work right there.” This quote demonstrated that this story was known by many but was not publicized. The fact that people would cover it up provided more of means to actually get the story out so people can be aware. The team took a different approach since this story was very covered numerous times. Michael Rezendes (one of the investigative reporters) thought that the story would attack the law but it was attacking the semester. The story would go unnoticed if they sole purpose was to attack the law. In order to make an effective boom, they would have to attack the head of the system. “We have close to stories on 70 priests, we nail that along with one of those letters. This is proof that this is bigger than the law. It’s the whole system.” The solution to go after the law was not the best one, but instead going after the system would be more prove to be more effective.

Spotlight was a movie meant to be an eye-opener to promote awareness of priests molesting children. Spotlight was a group
I have never heard of investigative journalism until I watched the movie. Thus, I did have any preconceived notions about it and it proved to be very informative. I admire their persistence in pursuing stories from times to an end. Rezendes deliberately went out of his way throughout the movie to get the story and his determination was continually shown. Rezendes had been determined to get sealed document which was supposed to be made public. Once he took up with the judge, the judge would question what's the editorial responsibility in publishing theses records of this nature and Rezendes responded by saying what’s the editorial responsible in not publishing these records of this nature. This is just one example where someone was hesitant to give out any information towards the