Fantastic Prismatic Angles on the Church's Sex Scandal

Having seen a number of similar, but still important, movies which do the usual story-telling of victims and perps, I was fascinated to see one that zeroed in on the Church cover-up more closely.

Bottom line: these men and woman were being supported by the very powerful organization whose rules they'd violated. Yes, they were isolated from the populace and thus unlikely to sin again in precisely the same manners that brought them into exile. But still, they had their basic food, clothing and shelter provided, in a seaside locale no less. Thus some were comfortable enough to fall into an arrogant sense of justification for their crimes. Entitlement.

I found several moments impactful: their blithely singing and praying over the dead, bloodied body of their colleague. One priest bragging that his perverse sexual proclivities were superior to normal sex. The therapist-priest hesitating when the grown victim suggested that he too might be a pervert. The hetero love-making scene gone awry. The almost comical litany of addictive substances requisite to keep the victim afloat in his new abode.

I also found the murders of the dogs an effective stroke of innocence-lost and self-defeat.