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Focusing didn't defeat my faith, but for the first time I really understood what I was asking for
Chelsey 2022-04-21 09:01:09
From the beginning of the children singing Christmas Eve songs, they cover their faces and weep until the end of the film. I am a catholic. I don't know if I will go back to church. I don't know if this film will be released in China, I don't know if there is such a thing in the church in China, and I don't know if there are victims in China... What does this series of questions mean? ! It means that if we are just ordinary people, we are all heartbroken, and we are all afraid and sad. However, for those victims, it is one after another of hopeless despair, no one will help them, no one will save them, no one will pay attention to them... They are deep in the cold and muddy abyss where the sun cannot be seen, raising their heads to look up. , are the occasional passers-by, their cries are not heard...they will misunderstand that God has abandoned them...because the people who hurt them are all in the name of God...crippled by faith...but no, it's not God's fault... It was the fault of every passerby we passed by. It is the duty of justice! so worried. Really worried. Can I still look to the light? Huge light always casts long shadows. Because there are humans blocking the light... This is the moment when I think faith is the most meaningful! It's not singing in the Bible, not praying for what I get... The focus awakens my attachment to the original hope of the faith. But a prayer from the heart. Please God listen to us and save all the suffering children! This is my most sincere prayer! I would like to kneel in front of the cross every day and pray... I have only one wish in this life... Save all those who are suffering! May the Lord hear us. Amen.
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Norene 2022-04-24 07:01:02
Originally, choosing a famous investigative feature is a bonanza for film directors. The clear logic, detailed figures, vivid characters, and appropriate rhythm in the report are all about drawing a storyboard script directly for the screenwriter. However, this film is not based on the report of the "Boston Globe", but re-edited the work of the "Focus" investigation team in the nearly one year before the release of the blockbuster report. The rhythm is very enjoyable, hardly a breath
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Pearlie 2022-03-23 09:01:09
The group portrait industry drama (the Hulk acting is really good!), a very solid non-fictional investigative writing textbook, is too logical and straightforward. But this kind of theme has not been made into a three-act drama with dog-blood vulgarity. In short, the opponent always exerts force in an invisible place (I also expect the newspaper to have a ghost... In fact, the villain is not only the church but also ignores and prejudices) , So writing like this is good in itself, but it seems a bit boring.
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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.
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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.