MASSACHUSETTS
WBUR
WRITTEN BY
Ed Siegel
For many people, going to the movies is a way of stepping outside their world and into another. Sometimes it’s a fantasy world — all too prevalent in Hollywood’s adolescent mindset these days. Sometimes, as with “Steve Jobs,” it’s a hyper-realistic attempt to create a new mythology that may or may not have much to do with the truth.
The great film “Spotlight” is something else, particularly for someone who worked at the Boston Globe for 35 years. I spent two hours trying to figure out if I was in a movie theater or back on Morrissey Boulevard, home of the Globe and where some of the scenes were shot.
I should say upfront that I had absolutely nothing to do with the real Spotlight series on Boston priests preying on their charges and the archdiocese’s cover-ups. As the amazing piece of investigative journalism was getting ready to roll out, I was charting the great leap forward in Boston’s small and midsize theaters in 2001 as the paper’s theater critic.
And I thought I was working on a big local story.
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