What Is The Mood Of The Movie Unbroken

The movie Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie is based on a true story written by Laura Hillenbrand. The story is a true story about a man named Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who is thrown into the world of war during World War II. The movie starts with Louis’s Italian family living in a small American town. Louis has a little trouble with the police when he’s young and while running away from them finds that he has a talent in running. After years of running in track and creating a better person of himself he is invited to the Olympics, where he breaks a record and receives eighth in the one mile event. On his way back home is when the war starts and right after returning home Louis is sucked into the war to follow in his brother’s footsteps. After he leaves he is in a base on an island for a year and is called out to fly with five other people to shoot down Japanese airplanes that are getting too close to the base. However, on one of these …show more content…
Considering that the movie is based on a primary source, Louis Zamperini, meaning that any details left out or added parts would be the change in history. However, Angelina Jolie stayed close to the story line and even in the end included Louis running in the Olympics, and pictures of Louis. Also at the end some of the prisoners in Japan with Louis were mentioned and what happened to them after war. The general in Japan that had beaten Louis and tortured all the prisoners was added as well. Therefore, it is hard to say the story is more fiction than fact due to the unmistakable fact that Jolie stayed so close to the primary source. Unbroken may not have followed the war in historical facts but it did show a side of the war of being imprisoned and tortured. It also displays the pride and determination of a soldier who would fight for their