A Mighty Heart (2007)

Posted : 12 months ago at Nov 10 22:48

I think it is an important film, as well as a great film. You wonder whether anyone said to Pitt/Jolie at the start, "What's the point of a film about the hunt for a kidnapped journalist, when everyone already knows the outcome?" Indeed, Daniel Pearl's beheading by Jihadists (recorded on video by the kidnappers) hangs heavily over the film. But it still works, because it's a film that tries to answer the question, how does a woman cope? How does she survive something so terrible? To be a pregnant woman, whose husband has disappeared, who has been accused of being a CIA/Mossad agent, to then be murdered so atrociously and so publicly. What stands out, among the inevitable chaos of the Third World urban setting, is the camaraderie. These various individuals who came together to try to ...Read more

Rating : 10/10