This movie tells of a true story of the murder of Daniel Pearl, an American Jew journalist who travelled to Pakistan with his 5 months-pregnant wife, Mariane Pearl in 2002 (a year after 9/11). He was kidnapped by a group of Pakistanis, and beheaded after 10 days. In fact, the kidnappers sent a video of the murder to the investigators and Mariane. He was killed simply because, he was an American Jew.
I have to tell you, the exchange program I went on (sponsored by the US State Department) was initiated because of the 9/11.
That’s why I relate a lot to this movie.
The reverberations of the tragedy is touch-skin vivid until today.
How will a child grow up, knowing that his dad was killed in a world tragedy, because of unsettled prejudices between nations?
Will it be legitimate for the child to be scared to live?
Imagine every person in both the American Airlines Flight 11 and the United Airlines Flight 175 (planes that crashed the World Trade Centre), who has a life, all perished innocently because of the deeds of others. How remorseful.
The mind is so incredibly powerful. It can bring the world together, but it can tear generations apart.
All it takes is just one mind.
Peace isn’t easily attained, because we human beings are by nature, selfish and prideful. We want things the way we want them to be, it’s just how far we would go to stand up for our beliefs. Some are radical, some don’t do anything about it.
But I believe, love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8). Truly. When you love, you forgive. And it all comes to peace.
Mariane Pearl and Adam Pearl (wife and son of Daniel Pearl)
Salute the strength and courage of Mariane Pearl. Such a strong woman at heart.
I decided that if those who killed my husband were determined to show the gruesome side of humanity, I would display its integrity, beauty and resilience. That would be my true revenge.
Mariane Pearl
She quotes inspiration from a speech of the late Senator Robert Kennedy:
“Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation…It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
