Unbroken: Harrowing, Honest depiction of war, will and faith.

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2015)

Rarely, if ever, has a film made me keep my seat during the credits. Usually as soon as the screen goes dark, I'm looking to head to the exit. By the end of Unbroken, my mind was racing and I had witnessed a film which probably joins my top 10 favourite ever films.
I thought this was just a film about about an Olympian running the race. Rather it looks at Christianity and the importance of faith in the darkest of places, it looks at a personal, honest depiction of the horror or war and world war 2. Rather than looking at WW2 as classic films such as The Battle of the Bulge or The Longest Day have done, with black and white and characters and the stiff upper lip and righteousness of the allies. Unbroken provides a harrowing, difficult to watch, portrayal of Zambrerin personal suffering. It doesn't glorify war, rather at times I wished it would end, as the suffering and pain faced is so clear. At times you wish that it would all end, you are certain that Zambrerini will give in. Or die. At times I wished to shout at the screen, for him to kill the guard! Yet the constant theme is that through faith, that Zambrerini will endure. At times he is provided for miraculously when there is so little hope. Moreover in a conversation with a captain in the POW camp, Zambrerini is told that he through endurance they have victory rather than through revenge and retribution.
If all took an eye for an eye, the world would be blind.
'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race.' 2 Timothy 5:7