Unbroken: Movie Analysis

Review of Unbroken movie
The movie Unbroken, based on the Laura Hillenbrand book and directed by Angelina Jolie hit the movie theatres at the end of 2014. It is a story about the life of American Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini. We watch him transforming from the troubled boy into a prominent athlete and unbreakable soldier, and forgiving man. Film begins with a scene of an air battle where Louis’s B-24 Liberator barely makes it back to the airbase making a crash landing. In the middle of the air battle scene Lois is having a flashback in to his childhood where he sees himself going from a trouble in to the best high school athlete, thanks to his older brother Peter. Peter pushed Louis to the limit, where others gave up. Later he becomes the

They were given a plane that was used for the parts and couple hours into the flight engines blew one after another and plane had crashed in to the ocean. Only three survived the crash, Louis, “Phil” and “Mac” they had very little food and no water, and were suffering hunger and thirst. The Japanese plane spotted their raft and tried to kill them, later they were attacked by sharks. The men caught fish and ate it raw, they survived the ocean storm. One of them died of wounds and was buried in the ocean. And after 47 days adrift in the ocean, they were fished out of the water by the Japanese patrol ship. Japanese kept Louis and Phil (his commander) on the military base on some island in horrific and inhumane conditions. They tortured them to find out about American radar technology, but they fooled Japanese and never told them the truth. Later both were sent to Tokyo and were separated upon arrival and sent to a different Japanese Prisoner of War camps. Since his first day in the camp Zamperini was having troubles with a camp’s commander Watanabe. After Watanabe found out that Zamperini is a famous American Olympic athlete, he tortured and beat him even more, in large part out of jealousy of his success. Louis did not give up, no matter how severe the punishment was, he always

In fact it was nominated by Visual Effects Society Awards 2015 for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture. The first scene that opens the movie is eye catching. Beautiful, peaceful blue sky suddenly is ripen apart with the armada of B-24 Liberators heading to bomb the Japanese. Then camera moves inside Louis’ plane, the inside of it beautifully made, with exceptional attention to details. All the cockpit gauges, metal textures, and bullet holes looked very natural and real. In the quick moment when camera aims at the gunner shooting “Zeros” we also can see torn by enemy’s bullets left rudder. When bombers reached the targets and started dropping their loads on the targets, Japanese anti-aircraft artillery started shooting at them, and black-smoked explosions looked terrifying and very realistic. As I mentioned earlier on the way back Louis’ B-24 was severely damaged. The crash landing had some eye catching details too. When plane was approaching the runway, camera went outside of the aircraft for the moment, and showed the damage the plane received during the air battle, damaged wings mechanisms and rudders, bullet holes everywhere, then it went inside the cockpit for a moment and showed the runway the way the pilot sees it – land was approaching much faster that it should. At that moment I felt like it was me sitting in the pilot’s