The movie I watched today was shot in Boston. The footage of the film swept across the main roads, commercial streets, and churches in the center of the city, and the memory came alive in my mind. It seems that the buildings in my impression are the background, and the movie adds these vivid characters to it. How I hope this is a story about a good Boston. However, the reporter in the story, step by step, exposes the scandal of the world's largest religious institution.
At the newspaper, a newly appointed editor-in-chief asked to reopen a five-year-old case in which a godfather molested or raped young children. The reporters from the Spotlight team started by visiting one of the victims of the godfather, found the organization of the victim survivors and found thirteen godfathers, and finally found the researchers, expanding the number to seventy or eighty. And the way they find their targets is to find those godfathers who have suspended or resigned without reason from the recorded personnel. In a small Boston, there are so many godfathers who are almost blatantly doing evil, and there is such a mature system within the church to deal with and reconcile such incidents. We always say that everything has its own legal sanctions. As everyone knows, the power of the church is far greater than the law. The final scene of the film is that after the investigation goes to press, the spotlight team calls around the clock. The newspaper subsequently published more than 600 stories of victims. According to statistics, there are as many as 124 godfathers who molested children in the Boston area, and more than 1,000 victims. What surprised me the most was that there are nearly 200 cities in the United States alone where churches have been found to be sexually abused on a large scale, and there are countless other cities around the world.
The most chilling thing is the line of subtitles at the end. The cardinal, who is suspected of covering up these godfathers, was transferred to one of the highest-level Roman Catholic churches in the world that year. There is no punishment within the church, and no sanctions by the law.
I have always been in awe of religious beliefs. The friends and family around me, who believe in Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, I have contact with, and they are all gentle and cordial. These people truly believe in these things in their hearts, and regard the existence of these gods as their spiritual sustenance. For those who believe in Catholicism, priests such as godfathers and priests are the messengers sent by God. Their words represent God, and their deeds are blameless. And the thought that someone would maliciously use the convenience of "God"'s messenger for personal gain was the first time I had a fear of religious belief. For boys and girls who grew up in the church, the status and authority of the godfather in their hearts is likely to be more important than that of their parents. And when the messenger of God says to play games with you, how can you refuse.
These tragedies should not happen to any child, and these "Messengers of God", are you saints or demons?
After watching the movie, I told my mother about the plot, and my mother asked me what the ending was, and I was startled. There is no end, the end is that these dirty deeds and transactions are made public, or the end is that even if these are made public, the authority of Catholicism is not threatened, and the order within Catholicism is not be affected in any way.
All I know is that many wicked people are still protected by this force, and those lives that have been trampled and ruined are gradually forgotten.
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