Unbroken is a 2014 American film based on a biography by Laura Hillenbrand about a man called Louis Zamperini. “Unbroken” opens with such a powerfully meaning and a serious of head forward sequence of combat events that portrays the film’s strengths and weaknesses. The meaning behind this film sends such a positive message. Zamperini’s story is almost not believable and the movie cannot possibly hit everything that’s so valuable to the story itself. The movie itself could have at least stretched to 3 hours, but today’s audience doesn’t have the patience.
The movie was created not to fail, and it doesn’t but the book was so much better.
Angelina Jolie had to make decisions about what to include in a two-hour film, so there was so much missed information that was in the book.
Louie Zamperini is a troubled kid who is stealing food and has a dream of hopping on a train and leaving town one day.
It introduces Zamperini (C.J. Valleroy) at church, on a Sunday when his priest is talking about “accept the darkness,” “live through the night,” and “love thine enemy.” Every scene delivers an important lesson. His older brother, Pete, who turns his life around, that leads to Louie’s passion for running he ends up joining the track and field team at his school. Louie breaks high school records, he goes to be in the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. His running career is then put on hold when the 2nd World War comes to play.
Louie enlists in the army corps and becomes a bombardier who is responsible for dropping bombs. During a rescue mission, Louie’s plane crashes in the ocean. Only he and 2 other passengers make it to the rafts. It shows the character out of his normal everyday world and into the traumatic new “adventure” world but also believable. Louie and the other surviving man are found and captured by the Japanese.
The movie was everything I’d hoped it would be after reading the book by Laura hillenbrand. The only thing that really got to me was that it did not continue with the character’s story about his understanding of Jesus becoming his Savior after years of suffering from PTSD and alcoholism, and how his life changed drastically after that. Angelina Jolie did a wonderful job as director. It looked as though she was emotionally touched as she spoke about the faith and power behind the story.
In many scenes Louie embodies the trait of resilience. He has the ability to recover from and respond fast. Not letting the plane crash, the starvation, or the sharks break his mind or spirit, Louie separates himself from his partners, diving into the ocean to save himself rather than giving up and leaving his outcome to be unintended.
Sooner or later, Louis falls into the hands of the Japanese military. He character opens as hopeful, determined, withdrawing while in the prison camp, he becomes a much more of a lonely figure.
Jolie brings a fresh eye to combat she ships a light to what actually happens during the time of war and what actually happens to the men and women that get captured by the enemy. Undoubtedly, The film leans towards Jolie’s devotion to The story itself. The film presents a series of remarkable moments.
I would recommend this film to anyone who is looking for an inspirational piece of art. Unbroken was a film that I enjoyed from beginning to end. It’s based on a true story and it gets into great detail of Louis Zamperini’s life. It gets into such great detail and it send a message to society that pain is only temporary you just have to believe in yourself and push forward.
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