SEATTLE (WA)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
By CLAUDIA ROWE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
An unfortunate truth about media coverage is that often the more headlines a story generates, the more desensitized its readers become.
News that Catholic priests around the country had sexually assaulted thousands of children generated an outpouring of rage when first reported, but much of that reaction has since downshifted to boredom, even irritation, at grown survivors' inability to move on.
"Twist of Faith," a documentary screening at Grand Illusion Cinema this weekend, shows why so many can't.
Film director Kirby Dick follows Tony Comes, a 33-year-old firefighter from Toledo, Ohio, as he grapples with the emotional fallout from decades-old violations, the circumstances of which -- from weekend trips with the priest, to his befriending of Comes' family -- will be eerily familiar to abuse survivors here.