Denzel Washington directs an adaptation where everybody's too nice and fine with everything, leaving no room for conflict in 'A Journal for Jordan.'
Their relationship develops slowly due to Dana’s tight-fisted control, influenced by her father’s infidelity. The interplay between Dana and Charles is where the magic’s to be had: In this screening, viewers emitted enthusiastic noises at the appropriate moments — such as when Dana’s face initially registers Charles’Advertisement
Michael B. Jordan delivers a likable, if stoic, Charles. But the film’s portrait is scrubbed so clean, he’s too good to be true. He’s the very picture of the honorable soldier, devoted to his recruits, silently coping with his wartime experiences. He draws and paints. He patiently waits for Dana to allow their next bit of progress, never displays frustration and, by the way, looks like Michael B. Jordan., the perfect man.
He’s also gung-ho that his son will follow in his footsteps, which is met by laughing semi-resistance by Dana . Then Charles dies in action. Rather than that putting Dana off of her son joining the military, when the boy reads the journal at 13 and starts behaving like a soldier, she smiles. And that’s not the only thing she accepts.
When the boy asks why America invaded Iraq, Dana says something like , “Some say it was to stop the terrorists over there. Some say we made them terrorists in the first place. But your dad would say he was fighting for his men.” Historians would have a field day with the film’s version of that summary coming from a former New York Times reporter and editor, considering the paper’s
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