i just watched one of the heaviest, deepest and most profound movies i've ever seen in my entire life. "A Mighty Heart" was a brilliantly composed, written, acted and produced film yet what struck me more about the movie was not its raw shots, famous starring actress or inspiring story. in fact, movies that you know the ending to are hardly profound because i mean, you already know what happens how exciting can it be. but what got me about this movie was that the entire time, while i know that journalist Daniel Pearl dies leaving behind pregnant widow Marianne Pearl, i hoped that somehow in the end he would live. i saw the honesty and integrity which he lived by, the love between him and his wife and friends, the dedication he had to his work that he would endanger his own life and i was captivated by his character. i was hoping that they would find him, that maybe i knew the wrong ending to the story, that he would live and be reunited with his wife and they would live happily ever after in karachi. but that doesn't happen, at the end of his gripping story, he does die. he dies a brutal and disgusting death all caught on videotape. and you're sad, you're captured by Marianne's cries and tears, you soul sinks a little when the salvation you were hoping for never happens.
thus, this story was touching. there's just something significant and thought provoking when you see the death of an innocent man, and the way that his death can completely change the way people think, grieve and live.
stay tuned for a parallel story of an even more amazing man, who dies a similar innocent death, but salvation comes THROUGH Him.
