Religion As Depicted In The Film Spotlight

The film Spotlight dives into countless examples of institutions and works to tie them all together with the central theme of dominants controlling the information that subordinates are allowed to receive. The main institution that The Boston Globe was attacking in the film was the Catholic religion. The members of the Spotlight team worked relentlessly to prove that the Bishops of Boston’s clergy, the dominants, were covering up hundreds of child molestations by their own priests. Since religion is an institution, people of Catholic faith will believe what the clergy say to be true because they feel religion does not need any further explanation. This film depicts institutions, such as religion, government, and media, as as an overbearing figure that control how society should perceive concepts. The main institution that came into play in the film was religion, specifically

No matter what the courts ruled, the public will, unless rebelled against, take the ruling as natural fact. Since the government holds so much power they are able to take certain actions and leave the public to not question them. In the film, the Cardinal, the head priest, was not arrested for molesting numerous children. According to Massachusetts state law, anyone who is found guilty of children molestation should be sentenced to time in prison, but in the film the priests were only served with a minimal fine. This further shows how the institutions like government control society because laws are suppose to be set in stone for everyone, yet people like priests get special treatment. Also under Massachusetts state law, it states that priests are required to report sexual assaults. Therefore there are two extreme accounts of how the government is manipulating laws, using prescriptive ideology, to mask what the priests are doing behind closed