In the Cinema Palace on Venice's Lido Island, "Spotlight" has already begun to be screened, and everyone's eyes are glued to the big screen to see what this highly topical film looks like!

The story of the film begins in 2001 when the Boston Globe ushered in a new editor-in-chief, Marty Baron, and when the new official took office, Marty Baron suggested that the "Focus" team reopen the previously reported case of priest sexual abuse of children, because in the eyes of Matty Baronte, who is calm and calm on the outside, the case is not over. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As a result, the four reporters of the "Focus" team began to sweep away the dust of this dusty case and start investigating the deeper truth behind this case again.

The results are, of course, astonishing, ranging from a few to dozens of priests involved, the non-governmental victim groups, and the important evidence unsealed by the court, the truth that everyone knows but does not declare......

In the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI is still standing in front of the window, as if he is looking down on the crowd of people, looking at the crowd coming and going in the small square below, facing Hollywood, a community of interests worth hundreds of billions of dollars, facing the modern media and the pervasive viral hype of the Internet, even the Catholic Church, even as the current pope, he has a deep sense of powerlessness.

After all, this society is no longer a Catholic society.

"Your Excellency......"

The middle-aged pastor in the back suddenly said, "If Murphy Stanton's film is extremely widespread, it will be difficult for an Archbishop of Márquez Costello to satisfy everyone in the church." ”

Benedict XVI stood there, not saying a word, as if lost in thought.

"Some of the things that were reported in the US media have already spread all over the world."

In today's society, it is undoubtedly very difficult to block the news, especially in the West, so the middle-aged pastor said, "The impact is very bad!" If this film is a success, I'm afraid it will ......"

"I know." Benedict XVI sighed.

The middle-aged pastor continued, "Your Excellency, the archbishop of the Diocese of South-Central California, USA, I am afraid that it will be difficult to calm the various emotions that have arisen among the believers and within the Church at that time. ”

Benedict XVI did not speak, knowing that the middle-aged priest was telling the truth, but waved his hand at the back and asked the middle-aged priest to leave on his own, and only after the sound of the door opening and closing sounded, did he turn around, look at the pope-specific office, and once again fell into thought.

Lido, inside the Venice Cinema Palace, the screening of "Spotlight" is nearing its end.

The screening hall was very quiet, and for two hours, there was neither applause, nor laughter, nor discussion, but everyone just watched the film in shock.

Among them, there are many judges of this year's Venice Film Festival.

They have long known that the Catholic Church has encountered a series of criticisms in the United States since last winter, and it has not subsided until now, and the scandals exposed by the American media have appeared one after another, and it seems that there will never end, but they are just watching it as a good show.

But when they saw this film, they were all a little silent, some didn't know what to say, and some were happy.

Many of the judges had children, and they were also Catholic......

The Frenchman Alexandre Dissprat, who chaired the jury, was one such person.

"Maybe it's time to give the kids a heads up." He muttered to himself, "You can go to church, but you must not be alone with those priests!" ”

Compared to those written reports, the impact of film and television pictures on Alexander Disspratt is too great!

As president of the jury of this year's Venice Film Festival, Alexander Disspratt was quick to put Catholicism and children aside, and all his energy was put into the film itself.

There is no doubt that Murphy Stanton has brought a masterpiece! Even if he is a French film practitioner who doesn't like Hollywood very much, he admits it.

"Spotlight" gave him the first impression of a classical film, which came partly from Murphy Stanton's calm narrative style, partly from the lack of dramatic pacing, but more, perhaps from the nostalgia for traditional print media contained in the story itself.

On the one hand, this feeling is reflected in the presentation and expression of the daily work of the newspaper, in the whole investigation process, the most "focus" team does is to interview the parties, collect information, screen the news, the film tirelessly shows this repetitive and monotonous process, a large number of newspaper clippings cut into small pieces to preserve, piles of documents, cost notes, telephone contact over and over again, making people almost wonder how far this kind of work is from the real core of the case.

One of the most representative is that the investigation team found a list of regional priests, from which it was found that priests who had committed sexual assault had been transferred from the original diocese by the Church under various pretexts, and the details of their appointments in the new diocese were found in the face of a huge amount of information, and it was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack to find out those priests who had committed illegal acts.

From this point of view, Alexander Dispratt finds the delicate balance that Murphy Stanton achieves in the film between the shocking story itself and the professionalism that the simple and unpretentious style tries to show.

Even though he had known that the story was based on real events, and that all evils would eventually be revealed, he was still shocked when the priest involved went from the reported cases, to the 13 victim groups, to the 90 estimated by private researchers, and finally to the 87 on the computer screen when the "Focus" team finalized the list.

This film with no Hollywood mode, no action scenes, no love and sex, and no big scenes is bound to become a good work, or even a classic!

Whether it is Murphy Stanton, or the Stanton party members who have turned gorgeously from comedies and commercial films, they have repeatedly given the best shortcut to realize their ideals in and out of the play, perhaps to maintain the persistence and firmness of their original intentions.

The big screen suddenly went black, the subtitles fell, and Alexander Dispratt was the first to stand up from his seat and slap his palms with all his might, even if it hurt, he didn't think about stopping!

Immediately afterwards, all the members of the jury on both sides of Alexander Dispratt stood up and applauded enthusiastically.

A standing ovation from everyone in the back, including the hundreds of journalists and general spectators sitting in the back!

Alexander Dispratt was not at all surprised to hear the landslide-like applause coming from behind, and it is completely conceivable what kind of attitude those reporters would have in the face of such a film that praises the power of the media.

As for those ordinary movie fans......

For "Focus", which is based on real events, in the face of the scandal of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, the indignant audience has long seen the development of the whole story in the series of reports.

Just to the left of Alexander Dispratt, the famous Chinese female director Joan Chen applauded and sighed in her heart, Murphy Stanton's "Focus" is simply the best film textbook!

In her years of directing vision, to learn the most basic and universal cinematic audiovisual methods, this "Spotlight" is very suitable, but Murphy Stanton chooses to complete the narrative in a way that is rich in scenes and emphasizes dialogue.

The whole film consists of a well-designed script with simple scenes; The huge amount of lines, rich scene switching, and strong character initiative make the rhythm of the film unhindered and very smooth - let the viewer follow the reporter of the "Boston Globe" to investigate together, there are basically no particularly prominent and emphasized scenes, all the creative emotions are tightly suppressed under the storytelling, so that the torrent of emotions can be released in the narrative.

So, all the characters in this movie are constantly talking, they are talking in the office, they are talking at home, they are talking outside the door, they are talking in the office hallway, they are talking in the kitchen, they are talking at the baseball field, they are talking on the golf course, they are talking on the side of the road, they are talking in a café, they are talking at a party...... In fact, from a certain point of view, isn't this just a norm for media workers?

She has lived and worked in the United States for a long time, and knows that Murphy Stanton is not an academic director, but this time the technique used is very academic, and the shooting techniques are very traditional, making every conversation scene compact, exquisite, steady, and plain, no scene has a particularly strong conflict, no one's performance is overdone, and no shot is particularly out of line.

is such a seemingly prosaic technique, but it completes a beautiful story that is calm on the surface and undulating on the inside; Murphy Stanton has nothing new in terms of cinematic technique, but it is precisely because of this that it is even more solid, and the whole film is very exciting, with prominent contradictions, tight rhythms, and sharp characters.

In fact, Joan Chen knows very well that it is more difficult to make a film like this, which almost conceals the director's personal style to the deepest depths, than to have a strong style on the surface.

How to tell a good story honestly? This requires Murphy Stanton to have a lot of self-confidence and solid control

Now, when she looks back and thinks about the story of this film, I am afraid that it is impossible to shoot it in any other way.

The solid, steady academic approach used by Murphy Stanton is also the most suitable for Spotlight.

The applause continued, and the momentum continued for several minutes, and the film may be a little dull, but this is the Venice Film Festival, not the summer season in North America.

Murphy and the main members of the crew also walked to the stage in front of the screen with applause.

Later, there is a very important press conference, and the impact of "Focus" has just begun!