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Five years ago, extremists murdered her journalist husband Daniel in Pakistan. Now, Angelina Jolie portrays her in the new film A Mighty Heart, based on her tragic love tale. Mariane Pearl will now take your questions...
...TIME's interview with Pearl continues on Time.com. Click to read our extra questions. Also, to read past interviews or submit questions for upcoming guests, go to time.com/10questions.
...Mighty Heart, based on the book Pearl's wife Mariane wrote about the huge and increasing desperate attempt to find Pearl before his kidnappers assassinated him, is a conscientious and in many respects admirable account of this effort. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo, A Cock and Bull Story) in the semi-documentary manner he favors - hand-held cameras, lightly rehearsed staging, considerable improvised dialogue - it has great immediacy and it tells a complex story very coherently. A bewildering number of institutions - Pakistani security forces, the American consulate in Karachi, Pearl's newspaper, even the FBI - turned the Pearl...
...also turns out to be the insuperable problem A Mighty Heart cannot solve. If this were a fictional film in which the possibility of rescue remains alive until the end, the possibilities for suspense would be endless and ever-tightening. But the sad fact is that we know Danny Pearl's fate before we enter the theater. Fascinating as these characters are, interesting as the events of its chase often are, we cannot escape the fact that the movie's ending is known to us, that history's course cannot be altered. We can (and do) admire Mariane's courage...
...take muted pleasure in that fact, it does not really satisfy us. We can, as well, admire his widow carrying on, building a new life, which includes creation of a foundation that seeks to protect endangered journalists everywhere (some 250 of them have lost their lives in action since Pearl's death). But again that cannot quite compensate us for our disappointment in this earnest, well-made, consistently interesting chronicle of death we know to be foretold. A degree of guilt shadows that judgment. One seems to be calling for mere narrative satisfaction from a film that has more serious...