A Mighty Heart

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Abraham S Apr 27, 2019 The thrill slowly picks up in the factual search and rescue mission through the oversea trouble's lost translation, displaying how much in the process it's affecting the predicted widow whose authentic figure enables Jolie's stunning performance as the main highlight. (B) (Full review TBD) See more

George G Jan 6, 2019 Daniel Pearl was a journalist who was kidnapped and executed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. This film is a recreation of those events. Despite its curiously stoic tone, A Mighty Heart retains its capacity to fascinate and intrigue. The film provides a lot of behind-the-scenes information about the investigation. It's also circumspect when it comes to representing Daniel's death. We see the reactions of others watching the video but Winterbottom does not feel the need to recreate the journalist's gruesome end. He uses words, not images, to clarify Daniel's fate, and Mariane's unwillingness to view her husband's murder becomes a major point late in the film. This restraint is emblematic of the entire picture. While A Mighty Heart may not be the most complete film that could be made about the story, its insider point-of-view gives it a vantage that a more comprehensive movie might not have. (Fascinating look at a tragedy). See more

Hagrid L Aug 31, 2018 The kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002 is compassionately told and respectfully chronicled in Michael Winterbottom's drama that is based on the memoirs by the surviving wife Mariane Pearl who is played with conviction by Angelina Jolie. See more

Kylo S Jun 21, 2017 based on the heartbreaking true story of Danny Pearle and his wife Marianne after 9/11 they were married and expecting a child; Danny worked as a journalist and his wife was working with French contacts they go to Pakistan to uncover the truth about the current state of tensions escalating between them and the US but Danny is missing and his wife figures out he has been kidnapped and held hostage by terrorists she sets out to find him non-stop no one deserves to be separated from their loved ones in a hostile, politically corrupt nation but Angelina Jolie gives a firehouse of a performance it's so gutwrenching that you might be in tears by the end this is how far one person is willing to go to ask as many people as possible while also combating the bureaucratic individuals it makes sense too given that the US doesn't fully understand the Middle East and their views on the status of the world it's a bit long and the ending is a downer but it speaks to us that we all have to connect through our words, our reasoning, and our compassion responding with threats, violence, and terror are not the way Jolie's performance is golden See more

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