Just recording the little things while watching this movie

Oceane 2022-04-19 09:01:09

I still remember watching this movie on February 29, 2016. My senior and I watched the Oscars in the morning, and spotlight won the best award. It happened that Xinyi had an Oscar re-screening, so we decided to watch this movie together in the afternoon.

She swiped the movie ticket with her mother's Citi card, which is said to be cheaper by redeeming the points.

I ate together Daxin, Tom Yum Kung soup base, and fried enoki mushrooms in the hot and sour soup. When eating noodles, she often splashes the soup on the table and wipes it off with a tissue. For some reason, she talked about her father, his new wife, and the newly born son.

The movie ticket was supposed to be in her purse, but it disappeared after eating. It was probably lost when she paid for it.

I hurriedly went to the counter to make up the ticket. It turns out that the replacement ticket can be so much cheaper. I said, otherwise I will lie about the replacement ticket next time. She smiled and said how lucky.

After entering, the movie has already started 11 minutes. I remember it clearly. The priest's evil deeds have already been discovered, and my secret love is still secretly planted in my heart like a bud.

After that, we agreed to watch a movie together on February 29, the next leap year. As a result, because of the epidemic at this time last year, she was in Taipei and I was in Hangzhou.

I took the ticket stub and asked her, do you remember. She said of course I remember. I say time flies so fast. She said, um.

Time really flies. I was still in love with her when I was watching a movie together. Now I have several girlfriends, I am single again, and I fell in love with someone else.

She also has a stable girlfriend. I asked her how she was feeling. She said, it's not bad, it's the same city, so small conflicts can be resolved just by meeting and talking.

So what about the next leap year, maybe we still have a chance to see each other, maybe we won't see each other again.

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Extended Reading
  • Danielle 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The more ugly cancer requires a calmer blade. A good journalist movie should resemble a good news report, without slandering, amplifying the shock value of the incident and the curious details, and leaving the anger and reflection on the audience and readers. Especially compared with Truth, another news release this year, it's really an opinionated one.

  • Guillermo 2021-10-20 19:00:58

    Best Picture Oscar Hello! (From the first film review, I predicted that it will win the prize, which is very worthwhile!)

Spotlight quotes

  • Walter 'Robby' Robinson: You know thirteen priests in Boston who have molested children?

    Phil Saviano: Yeah! Why do you keep repeating everything I say?

    Walter 'Robby' Robinson: [quieter than before] I just like to clarify things.

    Phil Saviano: Maybe you should have clarified it five years ago when I sent you all of this stuff! It's all... right here!

    [silence, Phil composes himself]

    Phil Saviano: May I use your bathroom?

    [pause]

    Matt Carroll: Yeah, sure, Phil.

  • Mitchell Garabedian: Three years ago I get a call from an ex-priest, Anthony Benzovich. He was at Blessed Sacrament back in '62, and he saw Geoghan...

    [waits for two cops to pass by, then continues]

    Mitchell Garabedian: ... taking little boys up to the rectory bedroom. So he's appalled, all right? And tells the bishop about it. The bishop threatens to re-assign him... to South America.

    Mike Rezendes: Jesus.

    Mike Rezendes: Yeah. So, fast forward thirty-five years. Benzovich reads that Geoghan has been charged with molesting hundreds of kids. So, he feels guilty. He calls me.

    Mike Rezendes: So, you have testimony of a priest telling his superiors about Geoghan in '62?

    Mitchell Garabedian: [shakes his head] No, I do not. Because when I call Benzovich in to give a disposition, he comes in with a lawyer.

    Mike Rezendes: Wilson Rogers!

    Mitchell Garabedian: Right. And suddenly, Father Benzovich has a very foggy memory. Can't remember anything. He's useless. So, I go back to work, I forget about it, whatever. Until about a year ago, I find an article about a priest who warned church officials about Geoghan.

    Mike Rezendes: Benzovich went to the press?

    Mitchell Garabedian: Yeah. Local paper, Patriot-Ledger. Nobody saw it. But now I got Benzovich on record. So, I file a motion to depose Benzovich a second time. And Wilson Rogers, that smug son of a bitch, files a motion opposing my motion. And that's when I have him.

    Mike Rezendes: Have him how?

    Mitchell Garabedian: Rogers opposes my motion, so I have to make an argument as to why I'm allowed to depose Father Benzovich a second time. Okay? But this time, I'm allowed to attach exhibits. You follow what I'm saying?

    Mike Rezendes: The sealed documents?

    Mitchell Garabedian: Yes! I can attach the sealed documents that I've gotten in discovery, Mr. Rezendes, the same documents your paper is currently suing for.

    Mike Rezendes: You're shitting me!

    Mitchell Garabedian: What? No, no, I'm not shitting you! So, I pull out the fourteen most damning docs, and I attach them to my motion. And they prove everything. Everything! About the church, about the bishops, about Law...

    Mike Rezendes: And it's all public! Because your motion to oppose Rogers' motion...

    Mitchell Garabedian: ...is public, yeah. Exactly. Now you're paying attention.

    Mike Rezendes: So, I can just walk into that courtroom right now and get those documents?

    Mitchell Garabedian: No, you cannot. Because the documents are not there.

    Mike Rezendes: But you just said they're public.

    Mitchell Garabedian: I know I did. But this is Boston. And the church does not want them to be found. So, they are not there.