![]() Instead, Michael’s character constantly puts courtesy first that is greatly appreciated by Chante’s Dana. It would have been very easy for Denzel Washington to levy his top-billed star’s volcanic screen presence set to Marcelo Zarvos’s poignant score into something hot-and-heavy that disarms any and all female defenses instantly. Jordan looks like an absolute dreamboat in this movie. Image courtesy of Sony PicturesĪs a fit man in uniform, Michael B. Soon enough, his chivalry yields a winning relationship of passion and devotion until their togetherness is hindered by his soldierly duties after the events of 9/11 and the ensuing War on Terror. Reflecting on her own parents’ flawed marital history, Dana is hesitant with the newly divorced Charles and the two spend months courting in a long-distance and chaste fashion. Jordan, through a minor bit of matchmaking orchestrated by her Army veteran father and stalwart mother (TV veterans Robert Wisdom and Tamara Tunie). Dana’s love story begins in 1998 when she met Army 1st Sergeant Charles Monroe King, played by Michael B. ![]() This is where A Journal For Jordan becomes as romantic as it is respectful. In her sleepless hours over several years, Dana seeks to write out her recollected memories in essay form. She’s an isolated widower with an empty half of the bed next to her and a baby son named Jordan who is not going to know who his father was. The film introduces Dana, played by Chante Adams of The Photograph, as a senior editor at The New York Times who still has to fight for full credit and solo workplace respect as a woman, all while managing to be a single mother pumping breast milk during break time in her office. In standing firm as it does, there’s a heap of bravery across many people and places to be found in A Journal for Jordan. Some folks are likely going to wish some of them should be addressed with a judgmental volume or flag-planting stance, but then they wouldn’t be matching this movie’s graciousness. Even with heavy emotions in play, none of those issues are shouted at with either favoritism or admonishment. Each is treated in an ultra-respectful fashion. For all intents and purposes in telling the memoir of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy, Washington has a movie that encircles patriotism, duty, the War on Terror, gender politics, Black love, colorism, the plight of military spouses, substitute fatherhood, legacies, and more. It is because of such a mannerly tone that Denzel Washington’s newest directorial effort A Journal for Jordan deserves admiration. Meaningfulness that comes from simple or plain roots gets devalued or lost for not being loud enough, and that’s a shame. ![]() Everything either needs to start as or become some kind of firebrand. Entertainment is trending towards objectives where big statements are necessary to get noticed or applauded. Call it a product of divisive social and political times, but it seems like the term “respectful” feels unfashionable at the moment.
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