Phil Saviano (Neal Huff) sits on one side of an office, clutching a
cardboard box in his lap. He’s the only one in the room who’s not part
of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team of investigative journalists.While
the newspaper has reported on Saviano previously, other reporters have
given the impression that they don’t put much stock in him as a source.
But these four journalists are different. They’re methodical, they’re patient, and –most importantly – they’re listening. Saviano tells his story of abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest, a slow descent from innocuous favors like collecting hymnals and taking out the trash – to sinister and abusive ones that we don’t want to imagine but are told anyway, as the film lays it out for us that the priest asked an 11-year-old Saviano to perform oral sex on him. “How do you say no to God, right?” asks Saviano with tragic irony.
http://uisjournal.com/features/2016/01/27/getting-the-truth-the-old-fashioned-way/
But these four journalists are different. They’re methodical, they’re patient, and –most importantly – they’re listening. Saviano tells his story of abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest, a slow descent from innocuous favors like collecting hymnals and taking out the trash – to sinister and abusive ones that we don’t want to imagine but are told anyway, as the film lays it out for us that the priest asked an 11-year-old Saviano to perform oral sex on him. “How do you say no to God, right?” asks Saviano with tragic irony.
http://uisjournal.com/features/2016/01/27/getting-the-truth-the-old-fashioned-way/
