Spotlight

Cinema for the Gods

In the last three to four months, I seem to have been lucky enough to experience the Silken touch of directors. Bridge of the Spies, Room and Visaranai all of them narrated with subtlety, restraint and complete command of the craft. Spotlight happens to be the fourth such experience.

Systemic decadence is now a known and prevalent phenomenon. 

Whether it is the government machinery in JFK, or the big Tobacco in Insider, or the Poice Force in Ardh Sathya or Visaranai,  Rudyard Kipling could not have been more correct, Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Absolutely Corrupts. 

I guess that could be true for all power centre's in any organization or institution.

The Church is the institution which is at the center of the storm in Spotlight.

For me the investigation initiated by Boston Globe, lead by the magical Liev Schriber, are great lessons in Leadership, Team work, Empowerment,  Research and Empathy.

The leader has the vision, sets the goals, is courageous, does not mince his words, leads from the front, does not intrude into the functioning of the team. The team assumes their respective responsibilities and works effectively together. The team dynamics are almost perfect.

And most importantly top class professionals are accountable for their mistakes, own it up, so that the greater cause succeeds.

If you are working professional, this is a must watch.

Recommend that you watch it with your teams.

I am reasonably confident that Spotlight will get the Oscar for the Best Original ScreenPlay and Room for the best Adapted Screenplay.