Angelina Stars in “A Mighty Heart”

The beautiful charming actress Angelina Jolie stars in one of the major roles from her career, as she will play Mariane Pearl, the wife of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was back in 2002 the victim of the kidnap and decapitation by Islamic militants.
The name of the movie in which Angelina Jolie will appear is “A Mighty Heart”, and it is based on Mariane Pearl’s book “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl”. The book and now the movie recount the events leading up to and following Daniel Pearl’s death. Mariane Pearl was six months pregnant when her husband died.
The movie pictures confusion and chaos as everybody seek to track Daniel Pearl down through e-mail, phone and so on. Mariane, the U.S. consulate officials, Daniel’s colleagues and the Pakistani intelligence, they all are unsuccessfully trying to establish contact with Daniel Pearl.
Daniel Pearl was believed to have worked for the U.S. or Israeli intelligence; then speculations were made that India was in fact behind the kidnap. However, all in all, the journalist ends up with his head off.
“For me so much of why this film is important today was because I highly doubt there is anybody in this room who has more reason to hold hate inside herself than Mariane, and she doesn’t.” – said Angelina Jolie about her character, adding that: “She is a very compassionate, thoughtful person who looks to dialogue to change things, to make things better. That is, I think, a lesson to all of us.”
Brad Pitt, Jolie’s partner, is the producer of the movie.

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