However, with the development of information nowadays, these things can often be seen in the newspapers. Click on the comments, and everyone is excited. Fortunately, this film basically uses an objective attitude to describe this issue. The truth of the whole incident is turbulent, but the surface of the narrative remains placid. Without too much emotional provocation, it goes straight to the point that the emotion and the biggest outburst is probably when Mike lashes out at Robin for delaying the report. [When Mark is angry now, I am afraid that he is going to transform, and then think of the tragic scene of my sister being slammed into the ground by him. This is a play, press not listed]
The whole story begins with an investigation by the focus group , and the whole story network, from the beginning of the priest sexually abusing children, the complexity behind it is looming, so that one by one, the whole iceberg is slowly smashed. Step by step, let people go from "shit" to "holy shit" to "fuck" to "what a fuck" according to the development of the story. Of course, it's still the same sentence. After all, the background of the film is 2001. With the rapid and continuous upgrading of the Internet and the media industry in the past ten years, it has also collapsed with the temptation of this world. Such a thing seems to us. It's not uncommon. There were even incidents of the principal sexually assaulting students in my court, and everyone's reaction was generally "beast", "suffered by a thousand knives", "damn"... and then welcome the next such report. There is no condemnation. After all, at the beginning of the film, the focus group of four is very angry about such a thing, but it feels more like a routine investigation and report. It's just that the turn of this attitude comes from the first shock of the film.
When the group of four found out the list of suspected priests, Matt, one of the members of the investigation team, was surprised to find that the priests in his neighborhood were on the list. This shock to him is estimated to be no less than the impact of Mars on the earth. Then he went home and posted a reminder to the children not to go near that house or the people in that house. When something like this happens, out of moral perception, everyone gets angry and thus sympathizes with the victim. But such emotions come and go quickly in the current world. But finding that the perpetrator is around is a different feeling, surprised, scared, and has lingering fears for what he may have suffered in the past without knowing it. Such an intuitive feeling can better make a person understand the cruelty and seriousness. For the viewer, this is also a dramatic turning point.
The second shock was that Mike came into contact with researcher Richard's research on this matter. In his opinion, behind this incident is not just a simple moral issue of the perpetrator, but a psychiatric phenomenon. Then, in the investigation by Sasha, he was surprised to find that one of the priests who had abused him did not agree with what he did, and even thought it was a normal thing, and "did not bring him the happiness he imagined". This attitude, this tone, do you really want to go up and beat him? However, what the priest said was truly horrific: He was also sexually assaulted by a priest when he was young. It's not just a moral issue of course, it's like a tradition, to put it nasty, because he's been treated like this, so he goes on to treat boys like he was when he was a kid. This seemingly reasonable, terrible rule has not only appeared in this incident. This fear may not only lie in the fact that it is a kind of psychological distortion, but in the fact that it is distorted without knowing it, and it has gradually become a tradition.
The third shock comes from people in the entire region, from top to bottom, who are secretive about this matter. Whether it's the priest's sister whom Sasha interviewed above, or the person who yelled at Mike, or the people Robin met in many high-end social situations, they are reminding them in their own way. Euphemistically, you and I are both residents of Boston. If such a big incident occurs, don't forget that you still have to hang out in Boston. Or tell him how much these people have contributed to the city, and for the sake of these contributions, don't check.
It is true that facing such an event calmly is not as easy as it is imagined. Unlike simple social events, the events took place in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and the influence of Catholicism does not need to be repeated. Many people see it as a belief, and the church is a belief in the same way. But as the researcher Mike asked about said, "I don't go to church anymore, but in a way, I think I'm still Catholic. The church is just an institution, it's run by people, it's going to pass. Yes, but beliefs are in my heart, and I try to keep them separate." In fact, the church is not, in a way, the same as faith, on the contrary, it is intertwined with other forces, as the bishop said to Marty:
"We took stand on civil rights, our readership was not please, they saw me as a outsider, tough seat to sit in, specially in a small town, I think you'll find that Boston still a small town too, and I find the city will full of (didn't hear it, probably meant prosperity) once The great institutions work together "
In fact, many times, many problems lie in the cooperation between great institutions, and many people are unable to distinguish the difference between the right to speak of belief represented by the institution and the real belief. And in this world, it's more than just religious beliefs.
Code this text, in addition to the admiration for these journalists because of the film's narration (not only the focus group, but also editor-in-chief Marty's courage, efficiency, determination, and conscience is really commendable), but also partly because of the former I have been taking exams for a while, and I read a lot of English to analyze social phenomena, select the causes, the consequences, and the possible far-reaching effects from a bunch of options. I always thought that if I chose the right one, I really understood it. After reading Focus, I found that the emotions presented by many words and derived from words are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many reasons behind it. No one has experienced and struggled in the process. , Angry, suddenly, how can you fully know clearly. There is a follow-up chapter at the end of the film about the cardinal who sheltered more than 90 priests, and was transferred to the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Rome (one of the highest-level Catholic churches in the world). This result may be better than the perpetrator. And the number of victims feels even more WTF it.
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