A Mighty Heart

I just watched A Mighty Heart, based on the memoir written by Marianne Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl, a journalist who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002. I chose to watch it after seeing a trailer on the DVD of The Kite Runner, which I watched a few weeks ago. I wouldn't say it was a brilliant film overall; a lot of it lacked dramatic tension and cut confusingly between scenes and between short flashbacks and the present. But the end made me cry, which is one of my tests of the quality of films, since I have to have formed some sort of connection with the characters to empathise with them to the point of crying. Films like this that are based on true stories really bring home the human, personal elements of the stories that are in the news. It was also good to see Angelina Jolie in a more serious role, very different to the Tomb Raider character.



http://www.amightyheartmovie.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829459/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mighty_Heart_(film)