In the post-9/11 era, it seems that all Westerners’ crisis awareness has been endlessly expanded by the cruel reality, but at the same time the compassionate feelings of literati and lofty scholars are also growing tenaciously in the cracks. The film’s protagonists, the Pearls, are a pair of reporters. They are working in Pakistan to report on the real situation in Afghanistan and surrounding countries after the bombing. Danny is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He took his pregnant wife with him just after he was about to interview a chief. When Mariane left Karachi, he was missing. Very quickly, Pakistani police officers, representatives of the U.S. Embassy, the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, and friends of Mariane formed an investigation assistance team. At first, it just made me lament the importance of the U.S. passport. Even the FBI is out of the country, and the Pakistani government has eliminated the elite. In the power investigation, what Mariane showed was nothing more than a calm and steady that was superior to that of ordinary women. There was no surprise. As the investigation progressed, it became more and more clueless. Concerns about Danny’s fate began to control the development of the film. Regarding the reactions of all parties and separate investigations, the film adopted a documentary-style, calm and fast flashback shot, which was objective. Some people are confused, is this still a Hollywood movie?
This may be the characteristic of Michael Winterbottom. After watching his Berlin Golden Bear work "In This World" or "The Road to Guantanamo", I can feel this British director's objective calmness that transcends the consciousness of Europeans and Americans on the anti-terrorist Iraq war in the Middle East. Even with a trace of compassion for terrorists in the traditional sense. The same is true for Mariane. Most of the time, she did not feel any extraordinary power in her. She was very calm and tolerant, and she could resist not losing control in front of everyone, and only showed her innocence to her children after crying bitterly in no one's corners. Smile, but the two words she said to her friends who helped her in the face of two interviews with the media and when the dust settled at the end, she suddenly sublimated and made her image surpass the ordinary and strong, and Really become that kind of deep and strong, a powerful heart that can be described by Mighty. In the face of the media and the public facing more fragile souls, Mariane used her calmness and strength to completely conquer them. Even though the pain of her bereavement is equally profound, she knows her profound Being strong can infect others through what she does and insists on. This is the meaning of this woman's powerful heart.
As expected, the movie is not a Hollywood-style rescue success ending, because reality is never what you want to happen. Mariane walks the streets of Paris with her son’s somewhat lonely back, making people sad, right. The persistence of faith has become more and more firm, this is the essence of the movie.
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