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By Bryanna Cappadona @brycappa
Boston.com Staff | 11.09.15
Spotlight doesn’t give too much screen time to accused priests. The movie is, at its core, much more about the value of investigative journalism and the reporters who tell the stories.
Then again, an extraordinarily memorable scene in the film does involve one particular clergy member: Father Ronald H. Paquin.
As the Spotlight reporters set out on foot in search of their story, approaching the homes of priests, victims, and anyone who’d be willing to talk, Sacha Pfeiffer, played by Rachel McAdams, ends up on the doorstep of Paquin’s home. When he answers the door, she’s visibly staggered (because it’s him? because of how he looks? because she’s shocked at her own investigative skills?).
Pfeiffer, who discloses that she’s a Globe reporter, doesn’t hesitate to ask Paquin right on his front porch for his response to accusations that he’s molested children.
“I fooled around,” Paquin says. “But I never raped anyone and I never felt gratified myself.”
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