Spotlight

[dhampyresa]

So I saw Spotlight with the rest of the triumvirate today. It was very good!

It reminded me a bit of The labyrinth of silence with the way it handled the sensitive subject matter very gracefully.

It's a pretty hard hitting movie. I was suprised by how much narrative weight was given to Rachel McAddams' character, as the trailer made it look like it was all about Mark Ruffalo's. (Dixit one of my friends: "Mark Ruffalo is always ANGRY at society. Sometimes he turns green.") It was actually pretty well balanced between McAddams, Ruffalo and Keaton, with the fourth journalist a little to the side, but he still got an awesome shot at the end. *drops newpaper dramatically on a doorstep* I like how the movie showed even the journalists as involved in the cover up.

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It's a very strong cast and an important theme: I'm hoping to see it in the next week or so.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It was a good movie! I was reluctant to see it, because the topic is so depressing, but I was impressed at how watchable it was.