First run through my head, A Mighty Heart strikes me as pointless and unsurprising; Winterbottom is of
course a better anthropologist than he is a political philosopher: if he's trying to apply Donald Symons's models of cultural evolution to
ethics instead of more immediately compatible pursuits (music, or literature), then what's emerged from the experiment is the revelation that
ethics and morality appear to have nothing to do with the base nature of man — and, moreover, that Angelina Jolie will never be Nicole Kidman in her ability to be both herself and someone else.