film "Strong Heart" has been translated into "Great Heart" and "Brave Heart". It is based on real events that happened in early 2002. The main plots in the film are all sourced. From Mariane Pearl's memoir about her husband "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl" (A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl).
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The incident took place in Karachi, Pakistan in 2002. Mariane Pearl and her husband Daniel Pearl were both journalists. Daniel Pearl worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, Daniel went out to collect news clues, but he never returned—he suffered. To the kidnapping of terrorists. On February 21, a video was exposed. The video first showed Daniel's body, and then the head of the body was chopped off... On the same day, the Americans confirmed the news of Daniel's murder. In the few weeks since her husband was kidnapped, Mariane has never given up her efforts to retrieve it, and all relevant agencies are also trying their best to find out. Although the audience knows the cruel ending, after seeing everyone work together to investigate, and gradually When approaching that core, there is still little hope.
At the beginning of the film, the noisy, disorderly street scene of Karachi, one of the world's largest cities, was given. Mariane's voice tells the audience how difficult it is to find a person in such a populous city. Then the picture shows the day when Daniel left home-he said goodbye to his wife who was pregnant in Liujia, calmly got into a taxi, and went to several places to meet the interviewees just like daily interviews. It was a trap that had been set against him a long time ago.
The film follows Mariane Pearl's memoirs and starts the narration from the perspective of a wife. Through the reproduction of the development of the event and the expression of the wife, people gradually perceive the image of Daniel Pearl, a journalist who is brave enough to find the truth. Mariane, who has been tortured and bred a new life, is persistent and stubborn, waiting for her husband's news. She is also very determined and calm, never being intimidated by intimidation, threats, and irrational behavior. Because of this, the leading actor Angelina Jolie once worried that she would not be competent: "...If I cannot express her character well, the audience will not be able to see how beautiful, strong, and open she is. A lovely woman, and I will hurt the great complex in her body.”
Objectively speaking, the film did not strive to create a sensational scene, but used documentary techniques, interlaced plots, and powerful dialogue slowly. Bring out the feelings and resonance of the audience: a 6-month pregnant wife is steadfastly waiting for her abducted husband, hoping that he can see the birth and growth of the child-this itself has a moving factor. The film did not deliberately create a dramatic conflict, but gave an objective reality comparison. When Mariane was in pain and grief, the film occasionally interspersed with the scenes of the young Pearl couple having weddings and honeymoon trips. On the one hand, it is a documentary-style true tragedy. On the one hand, there are beautiful memories flashed back. When the cruel and beautiful face was met in a daze, the implication was self-evident.
Angelina Jolie’s performance in the film is remarkable, and some of the scenes are quite high-quality, but I don’t really appreciate her performance in the scene where she learned that Daniel has been killed, it seems to be a little dealt with Improper, I haven't felt the perseverance behind sobbing silently in the yard before.
Director Michael Winterbottom, who is accustomed to expressing feature films in a documentary style, once again demonstrated his ability to control political films. In this film, he did not directly discuss issues of politics, religion, and terrorism. Instead of looking at the whole event with subjective feelings and secular prejudice, but showing the course of the event calmly and calmly. Moreover, he not only knows how to grasp the audience’s heart, but also how to grasp the audience’s brain. He even omitted the tragic content of the exposure video, and only photographed the viewer’s facial expressions, allowing the audience to feel the tragedy. The truly terrible things hidden behind the incident should arouse people's attention, scrutiny and thinking.
At the time of the birth of her son, Mariane's voice was: "This film is dedicated to Adam." Not dedicated to the dead husband, but dedicated to the newborn son, which means to place hope in the future, because no matter who it is, whether strong or weak, right or wrong, anger, confrontation and blind hatred cannot solve any problems, but only make more Innocent people fall into more suffering. Mariane hopes that when her son grows up, there will be no barriers, no differences, no terror, and no hatred in the world. At the end of the film, Mariane walks the street with Adam's hand and goes away.
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