We have seen Tom Hanks play numerous characters but still, his mystical presence has the ability to get liquified and then take the form of the character in which it is put. What also separates News Of The World from its genre is the strong acting performances by Helena Zengal (who plays this orphaned girl named Joanna Leonberger) and Tom Hanks. But it is in the little nuances that the film completely distinguishes itself and abstains from becoming a mundane drama. She believes that she belongs to the Kiowa community, unaware of the brutal reality that she had been kidnapped by those people who also killed her parents. A benign man develops a paternal instinct towards an abandoned girl who somehow survived the man-made wrath, we refer to as a civil war. It might look like a stereotypical drama on the onset. Captain Kidd decides that it’s his job to leave her to her only relatives, whom she had never seen before. Her yells and stubbornness stem out from deep-rooted angst, anger, and a sense of loss. He again tries to leave her at a friend’s. There was a waiting period till the agent came and till then the captain had to keep her with him. The government officials come on the scene and it is decided that the Captain would leave the girl to an Indian agent who will leave her to her kin. She raises her guard and does not let the Captain come near her. He finds a scared little girl hiding in the bushes. Captain Kidd while traveling from one place to another finds a dead body, of a man of color, hanging from a tree.
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