by HMKGrey » Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:57 pm
Did anyone else watch this? <br><br>Apart from the obvious heart wrenching nature of the story and one's very real response to the inhumanity of his fate, I thought it was very light weight as an investigation. A little bit of poking around at the ISI and so on but largely a lot of photos and videos of Danny Pearl poignantly enjoying his life over terribly sad music. <br><br>No major points of conspiracy elaborated on to any degree. <br><br>Also, it was narrated by Christian Amanpour, a terrible choice IMHO as she sounds snooty enough when you can see her but as an invisible narrator she sounds incredibly superior. <br><br>The only odd thing - and I say this carefully - there's an amazing amount of footage of Daniel Pearl at work and photos galore of him in situ at the WSJ etc. Not sure I can elaborate on this, but it seemed bizarre to me. I've been running a media company for 15 years and I bet there's not one single video or photo of me actually at work, yet Pearl seemed to be the subject of countless shots, both still and video, while on the phone, at the computer, even sending a fax at the office. <p></p><i></i>
