It's a moving film, and Jolie plays the wife of the assassinated journalist well. She'll probably win a deserved nod for an award. But the script falls short in a most important way.
Daniel Pearl was not kidnapped and beheaded because he was Jewish (which the movie's script tells us he was). One more time, mainstream media/film-makers block the truth of 9/11.
Pearl was a journalist with a major U.S. publication chasing a breaking story for who was behind the attacks. It was January 2002--what else would he be doing?! The movie makes an abstract mention of the $100,000 wired to Mohammed Atta but then drops it. So the truth of what he was investigating and why he was killed is trivialized.
(In real life--which this movie pretends to portray) Omar Shiekh, who wired the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the Al Qaeda bag-man in Florida, was an undercover ISI agent (verified). The ISI (Pakistan's intelligence) is a so tight with the CIA, they're often referred to and thought of as the same agency in Pakistan. During the week of 9/11, ISI Chief General Ahmad was on an official visit in the US meeting with the Pentagon, the National Security Council, CIA Chief Tenet, a couple of Senate Intelligence Committee members, and Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage. (all a matter of public record)
Sometimes Hollywood is ahead of the rest of us, and at least sneaks in truth and consequences. Daniel Pearl was investigating the ISI, their connection to the CIA, and the $100,000, and that was why he was kidnapped and assassinated.
"A Mighty Heart" is a missed opportunity to be a really good film because they omitted the heart of the story. Mrs. Pearl's heart must be 'heart-sick.'
Having lived and worked in India and Pakistan, I did enjoy the reality captured in the street scenes.
Daniel Pearl was not kidnapped and beheaded because he was Jewish (which the movie's script tells us he was). One more time, mainstream media/film-makers block the truth of 9/11.
Pearl was a journalist with a major U.S. publication chasing a breaking story for who was behind the attacks. It was January 2002--what else would he be doing?! The movie makes an abstract mention of the $100,000 wired to Mohammed Atta but then drops it. So the truth of what he was investigating and why he was killed is trivialized.
(In real life--which this movie pretends to portray) Omar Shiekh, who wired the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the Al Qaeda bag-man in Florida, was an undercover ISI agent (verified). The ISI (Pakistan's intelligence) is a so tight with the CIA, they're often referred to and thought of as the same agency in Pakistan. During the week of 9/11, ISI Chief General Ahmad was on an official visit in the US meeting with the Pentagon, the National Security Council, CIA Chief Tenet, a couple of Senate Intelligence Committee members, and Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage. (all a matter of public record)
Sometimes Hollywood is ahead of the rest of us, and at least sneaks in truth and consequences. Daniel Pearl was investigating the ISI, their connection to the CIA, and the $100,000, and that was why he was kidnapped and assassinated.
"A Mighty Heart" is a missed opportunity to be a really good film because they omitted the heart of the story. Mrs. Pearl's heart must be 'heart-sick.'
Having lived and worked in India and Pakistan, I did enjoy the reality captured in the street scenes.