MoViews: UnBroken Genres: Drama Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Overall BAGEO Rating: E
Direction:
Angelina Joile ; Cinematography:
Screen Play:
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard Lagravanese, William Nicholson Production Designer: Jon Hutman
Key Actors: Jack O'Connell
Summary:
An amazing movie
based on the real life story of Louis Zamperini who was a potential Olympic
runner for the USA, but was destined to participate in a rescue mission during
the war against Japanese. The rescue
mission went wrong and he along with two of his colleagues were trapped in a
raft in the middle of Pacific Ocean for 47 days. To make matters worse, he and another man
Phil (the third soldier died in the ocean) were captured by Japanese soldiers
and forced thro a horrible torture in different prison camps. Zamperini
survives all the torture against all odds and returns back to the US and to his
family. It is said (and not in the movie
though) that after a few years of recovery from the trauma, Louis becomes a
spiritual man and goes back to Japan to his war camps and forgives all the
Japanese soldiers who tortured him. He
was supposed to have participated in the Tokyo Olympics which was cancelled ,
so he had the honor of running with the
torch in Japan in 1998.
The
movie is based on the book 'Unbroken: A
World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption' by Laura
Hillenbrand and directed by the celebrated movie star Angelina Jolie.
Amazing bombing
scenes from fighter jet at the beginning.
Fills the screen with sound effects and realistic scenes. Many
motivating lines in the script including
"Go on living the best you can.
Try to have some fun along the way", ""If you take it,
you can make it"". For me,
the scenes in the ocean resembled the Life of Pi movie, but the story takes a
drastic turn when they were captured by Japanese. Ferocious scenes of sudden attacks from
sharks. A very tragic situation of one
of their man (Mac) dying and his body respectfully lowered into the ocean. After sometime even the viewer may start
wondering when their difficulty ends when they are caught by Japanese and
cruelly tortured (abused?) and even separated. A lot of cruelty in the war
camps - can't believe it. The movie
sets for the war scenes are very realistic and elaborate. Can't believe Japanese were so cruel in their
treatment of prisoners. Amazing scene of
all prisoners bathing in the river An
unbelievable true story of survival, resilience and redemption indeed, as the
title of the movie says. In one of the
most anguishing scenes, a malnourished and tired Louis Zamperini is ordered by
his Japanese commander to lift a huge log of wood as punishment.
Got to know the
movie was filmed mostly in the Gold Coast of Australia. Not in the movie, but it is said that Louis
became was suffering from trauma after the return (understandably) and became
an alcoholi, but at the insistence of his wife,
started attending the sermons of Billy Graham and became a born-again
Christian. He then went back to Japan
after his recovery from the trauma and met his former Japanese soldiers who
tortured him and forgave them for their acts.
Other interesting points:
Overall: An excellent movie based on a true
story. Difficult to watch for kids. BAGEO Rating: E
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