According to Brain Tallerico “Unbroken opens with a powerfully staged and shot sequence of aerial combat that surprisingly defines the film's strengths and weaknesses over the next two-plus hours”. The film I chose to review was called “Unbroken”. This action packed film showed important events involving Louie Zamperini an American solider fighting in the Second World War. “Unbroken” was overall a very good film that had many strengths and weaknesses. The director Angelina Jolie produced the unbelievable true story that showed survival, resilience, and redemption. The film mainly takes place in a Japanese concentration camp. The main charter of the movie was an Italian American named Louis Zamperini. Louie also was a member
Now a major motion picture, this novel contained the true story of a man named Louie
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This is an immigration movie geared towards kids to show and teach them about immigration to America. It shows them the reasons they (the Mousekewitz) left their homeland Russia to come to America. In their case it was to escape the Czarist rule of the cats, parallel to most immigrants who escaped their land due to religious and political persecution. Once aboard the ship to America, it showed the long and unpleasant trip to New York Harbor, where in this movie, Fievel gets separated from his family to inclimate weather. Once they arrive in New York Harbor, it shows children the happiness immigrants got when they saw the statue of liberty and the process through Ellis Island to become a citizen of America. The rest of the movie takes place in America where it shows “political machines”, such as Warren T. Rat, who really is a cat but takes advantage of new immigrants by dressing as a mouse and receiving the mice’s trust. With trust came their money and broken promises, just as “political machines” really did back then. The movie shows the immigrants hardships and poor living conditions in America with tenement housing and unsanitary conditions.
I enjoyed reading Unbroken which is a book that showed the struggles of a grueling air warfare between United States and Japan. Throughout the book, Laura Hillenbrand, author of Unbroken gripped the reader’s attention through the details of gut-wrenching conflicts. By showing the art of survival through the character, Louis Zamperini, Hillenbrand demonstrates the theme of resilience through persistency, intelligent choice making, and willingness to live.
In its best moments, the movie is a strong, anti-war documentary. It has truly moving moments of bereaved loved ones, mangled bodies in the streets, incredulous soldiers in Iraq, angry Iraqis and innocent teenagers being manipulated into enlisting. In this way, the movie presents a version of the war on Iraq that isn't shown much in the media. It improves our understanding of the war by giving it a human face.
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Unbroken is a biography written by Laura Hillenbrand. It is about an Italian American, Louis Zamperini. The book details Zamperini’s life, from childhood, to his time as an Olympic runner and then his experience as a lieutenant in the American Air Force's 372nd Bombardment squadron and the 307th bombardment group. Zamperini became a prisoner of war (POW) in Japan after his plane suffered engine failure and crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
In the second half of the film, it is now March 13th, 1943, and the liquidation of the ghetto is taking place. Many Jews are unjustly killed as they are pulled from their houses or did not co-operate. Those who tried to hide are found and kill...
The movie focused solely on Louie’s perspective. The movie only briefly showed his early life. Then, it spent too much time on his time at sea and the POW camp. The movie focused on the resilience of Louie by only showing the hard times. The book goes into detail about Louie’s whole life. It explains his early life and track career chronologically before going on to Louie’s time at war. The book also gives a better insight to what it was like for Louie in the POW camp. The book also explains Louie’s struggle when returning. The movie and book are both very inspirational.
Unbroken is a book that has touched everyone that's read it in someway, Louie's can do attitude will leave us inspired to do more with our lives by the end of the book. Laura Hillenbrand tells us the life of tenacious Louie Zamperini, who went from an olympian to a living corpse to a man of God. Louie Zamperini was a troubled child who seemed to going on the wrong path, but once he started running he learned that he couldn't keep doing the things he used to do. Louie makes it to the olympics and comes in eighth. He is then drafted into the military where he becomes a bombarder. His plane crashed in the ocean where he was stuck at sea for 47 days. The Japanese captured him at sea and took him to a prisoner of war camp, he was torchered for two years till he was rescued. Even after he was rescued he was still not the same because of he had
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit would once again take the world by storm with her latest novel, Unbroken. The story follows Olympic runner Louie Zamperini through his troubled youth and later life. Without doubt, the story of Louie Zamperini is a story of survival, resilience, and redemption, covering the greatest feat of the human spirit, pushing him to the breaking point all the while testing his endurance in fatal situations.
“Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this philosophy to learn the wisdom from and none of them as wrongs will be avenged.” Abraham Lincoln dictates that human nature is not able to change, but it won’t stop the goal of trying to perfect those flaws until the “future great national trial’’.For example, Odysseus until the end of The Odyssey, when he changed and acknowledged his flaws . What Homer shows us about human nature through Odysseus’s relationships is that humans are inconsiderate, disloyal, and self-centered.
The movie, "In The Name of The Father," portrays a social injustice that took place in England. It is a story of a family that was wrongly imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. The two main characters who are suspected of the bombing are Paul Hill and Gerry Conlin. They are both from Belfast, Ireland and are in England to get away from all the craziness in their hometown. The two of them are shortly arrested after Gerry robs a prostitute's apartment. They took the money he stole and started spending it like they were truly wealthy. Gerry decided to return home and share his new wealth. Little did they know that this night would be the start of the downfall for them.
The film tells the story of a deranged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper who was the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, launches a planed nuclear attack on the Soviet Union via his nuclear-armed B-52 fighter jets, which were holding at their fail-safe points, to move into Soviet airspace, based upon a twisted paranoia that the communist party was contaminating “our precious bodily fluids”. The movie follows the course of events proceeding General Jack D. Ripper’s ordered attack.
The film begins in Dublin Ireland in the year 1916, the setting was during the Easter uprising which was a rebellion that was started by a group of Irish nationalists against the British Government that was in Ireland. Within the first few minutes of the film, the leaders of the rebellion were taken by British troops and executed by firing squad. Michael Collins at this time was not in a leadership role and therefore was not as much of a threat. He was however imprisoned along with Harry Boland for their role and after a few months, were released in December. Eamon de Valera, who was one of the leaders and played a significant role in the film, was taken to jail and put into a holding cell awaiting his execution and then Michael Collins and Harry Boland, broke him out of jail. Historically, that did not happen. Valera was sent to jail but was not executed because he was born in America and was released approximately one year later...