NewMexiKen has seen A Mighty Heart, the new film starring Angelina Jolie as the wife of kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl. Pearl, a reporter for the The Wall Street Journal, was taken in Karachi in 2002 and eventually beheaded by terrorists. The movie tells the story of the search from the pregnant wife and police point of view, with some memory flashbacks and a minor bit of epilogue. It is based on A Mighty Heart: The Inside Story of the Al Qaeda Kidnapping of Danny Pearl
It’s a good film, exceptionally fast-paced. Jolie is superb — and “the star” — but the other roles are quite well-played as well. It’s a heavy story that could I suppose have been told like Munich, a film which pretty much made me give up all faith in human nature. A Mighty Heart, on the other hand, tries — and largely succeeds — in rising above bitterness and despair.