After Shattered Glass, I was really excited about seeing another film about journalism, but this time something very different - a true story once again, but about a journalist who is a real hero, a martyr (in the most literal and venerable sense of that word), assassinated as a result of her persistent investigation of drug-dealers and crime bosses in Dublin, Ireland back in the 1990s.
I had not heard of Veronica Guerin before seeing this film, and I found the story profoundly moving, especially because of how the film started with the end of the story, and then built up to that ending once again, so that Veronice Guerin's ride down the Naas Road felt completely different by the time you saw it again at the end of the movie. Yeah, I cried. Thumbs up to movies that make me cry even when I am telling myself, "No, you will not cry." But how can you not cry? It is an amazing story of a courage that I know I do not possess... and I respect anyone who is able to take that courage and dedicate to the public good, which is what Veronica Guerin did.
The song by Sinead O'Connor in the final credits is beautiful. Cate Blanchett is brilliant from start to finish, and kudos also to Ciarán Hinds (whom I recently saw in the excellent Mayor of Casterbridge). He is an actor I plan to investigate further!
This image comes from Veronica Guerin's page at the IPI Press Freedom Heroes website:
Here is Cate Blanchett, in a scene with Ciarán Hinds:
YouTube video with the Sinead O'Connor song, One More Day:
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