Journal for Jordan Movie Review
Michael B. Jordan
Journal for Jordan, directed by Academy Award winner Denzel Washingtonis is a wonderful romantic film. It is based on the true love story written of Dana Canedy former senior writer for the New York Times and currently a publisher at Simon & Schuster. Even my brother who bemoans chick flicks enjoyed it but I dare you get him to admit it!
Dana (played by Chanté Adams) and First Sergeant Charles Monroe King (played by the hunky Michael B. Jordan) love story plays out on the big screen beautifully with just the right amount of tension and sweetness. Dana is a career-driven journalist not looking for a man when her father invites Charles over for a picnic and the sparks between them fly. Long-distance relationship are hard and these two sometimes find it difficult to love when Dana is in New York and Charles is in Ohio. Their relationships build thorugh phos calls at first until Dana invites Charles who is also an artist to New York City to check out some museums. Vowing to take things slowly at first the attraction between them is explodes and the two start a romance.
This relationship develops over a 10-year period as both Dana and Charles are carrying some baggage. Charles is a divorced father and Dana has unresolved issues from seeing her father’s infidelity. Despite these obstacles the two vow to stay together. When Dana discovers she is pregnant and Charles is deployed to Iraq she gives him a journal to write to his son, Jordan.
It is through this 200 page journal that Jordan gets to know his father he only saw on one visit when he was a few months old Charles being killed months later.
This movie pulled at my heart strings and it was a win for Black fatherhood that often gets downplayed in the media. The cost to rent this film on Amazon Prime was $20. It is exoensive but worth viewing so perhaps you can invite some friends over (safety that is) to check out #AJournalForJordan.
Candace Waller is the author of, What Goes Around Comes Around the sequel Good Things Comes, and the upcoming book Lessons I Learned From Loving You, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Healing.
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