Unbroken (2014) Review

This movie does little beyond telling the story of Louis Zamperini - and it does so with a lot of missing details, no character growth, and contains little else than drawn out scenes of suffering.

The movie is very similar to The Passion of the Christ in that the film shows little progression except when the main character is shown suffering in some way. The characters shown in the movie, Louis and "The Bird" being chief among them, have little to no backgrounds, motivations, or growth / story arcs. 

Louis is shown first as a troublesome child, then a youth learning to run, then an Olympian, and finally a soldier; between these scenes, however, there is no transition, no story about him deciding to go for the Olympics, and no story on whether he was drafted or voluntarily signed up to be a soldier. This results in the movie being very oddly paced and Louis having little substance to his background.

Louis, while suffering in the Japanese prison camp, is never shown thinking "I can't do this" or progressing to the point that he determines "I will make it out alive no matter what." He is simply tortured, repeatedly beaten and humiliated, and finally the war simply ends.

Strangely enough, no other prisoners or "extras" are shown being killed / executed at the camp, which does little to help show the brutality of their conditions. 

Finally, the movie ends with written paragraphs on-screen which detail his life back in the US and how he forgave his captors. One of the biggest rules of film is to "show them, not tell them," and considering that the written part of the story at the end contains more interesting parts of his life than most the movie, it seems the film was barely able to "show us" as well.

The source material for the movie; Louis's story, is extraordinary and exciting, its unfortunate that the movie does very little to give it justice.

Unit - 7 New words

1	break up	хагацах
2	get  along	хамт байха
3	go back	эргэж нийлэх
4	go out	найзалж эхлэх
5	settle down	суурьших
6	sign up	нэгдэх
7	work out	бүтэлтэй болох
8	grew up	өссөн
9	hung out	уулзалдах
10	go away	хол явах
11	fly back	нисэж ирэх
12	hook up	залгах
13	take apart	задлах
14	convenient	тохиромжтой
15	introduce	үүсгэн байгуулах
16	apartment	орон сууц
17	weird	хачин

If I had my life to live over again

If I had my life to live over again I do a lot of stuff. I would try my very best at things though that would not be good enough. I would tell my mom I love her, and that I really do care. Though sometimes I don’t show it, the love is always there. I would try real hard in school I would always do my best. Even on the stupid stuff. I just would not get all stressed. Though my sister is annoying, she is the only one I got. I love that girl to death, and that is something that will never stop. I would turn the television off, and the computer off as well. I would spend my time with the people I love, now wouldn’t that be swell. I would try to meet new people, and never get too shy because everyone is different and that is not a lie. When I think about my life again its harder then you would know. To wipe the tears out of my eyes its nothing I will show. I would cherish all the moments with my grandpa, whom I miss. I wish I could have given him just one last special kiss. If I only could live my life differently, all the stuff I would rearrange.