IN SOME ways it's hard for Dan Futterman to talk about Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter he portrays in the new film, A Mighty Heart. Kidnapped in 2002 by terrorists while he was on assignment in Karachi, Pakistan, Pearl was brutally killed, a videotape of his death providing a gruesome postscript. The film, which co-stars Angelina Jolie as Pearl's wife, Mariane, and details her view of the exhaustive search for her husband, doesn't lend itself to pat observations or glib opining.
It's a wrenching story, and Pearl, whose murder was broadcast across the world, has become emblematic of a more savage strain of terrorism that continues to this day. IN SOME ways it's hard for Dan Futterman to talk about Daniel Pearl, the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter he portrays in the new film, A Mighty Heart.
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