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As a Jew who has lived many years in Israel, and am passionately involved in correcting anti-Israeli propaganda, I found the movie curiously unaffecting. There is not a single scene of Jolie in which u r not aware she is the beautiful icon. You can see why she wanted the part: Happy, nervous, sad, anguished; all the emotional range an actress could dream for: each with her perfect curls and lighting to show her beauty. The movie is a whirlwind of frenzied cuts which show life in Kerachi, but there's nothing else really: leads, phone calls, emails, we all know what the end will be, so ultimately, there's really nothing here outside of Jolie's beautiful face. Not only is there no controversy, it's relatively tame: Jolie utters some nonsense about misery giving rise to Muslim extremism. It's the extremism that gives rise to the misery, dear. There's no relationship between poverty and radical Islam. Lastly, by leaving out the beheading, the movie sanitizes itself and makes Pearl's death less than it was. The death itself was something Pearl could give as example of Islamic madness, but there's no guts here. No great acting either. Jolie is MORE than Mrs. Pearl; she is Angelina Jolie, swamping the role with her presence, and having a great time acting while looking beautiful.
score 1/10
mitchabramson 28 June 2007
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