A brutal masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2015)

"Unbroken" is a brutal and terrifying story about a man basically getting abused for an extraordinary amount of time. Plane wrecks, stranded at sea for months, being captured by enemy soldiers where he is beaten and abused. It's scary. I couldn't manage going through everything that the protagonist went through. I would probably make it a fifth of the time that he made it through and then either lose my mind or just kill myself. He made it all the way through and still remained strong.
The correct thing done with this movie were the amounts of real emotion that they placed throughout the movie. Not really what they showed, but more what the audience felt. I could not stop thinking about how bad I felt for this guy throughout the entire movie. But at the same time, I simply couldn't look away. It kept pulling me in and kept making me upset but interested. I was constantly questioning what I would do in his spot. How I would react and behave to some of these situations what he went through. It was like one of those really sad commercials for the animal shelters. You feel so sad but you can't look away because then you feel like a hypocrite. The sadness and just sheer brutality of this film told the entire story throughout the duration of it.
There was only one problem with this movie. And that was the fact that I noticed that it was unnecessarily censoring stuff. Which, I guess, makes sense. But I feel like it hurt the experience just SLIGHTLY. It made slightly tough at times to immerse myself in some of the drama that was happening because I wasn't seeing what was actually happening. Immersion is a big part of the experience for me when it comes to movies, and the censoring made it only a little difficult to do that.
"Unbroken" is a masterpiece of a drama. It has the perfect ability of not making you think "Oh yeah, this guy is going through crap. I get it at this point." It constantly keeps you interested and feeling the feels and is definitely worth watchingunless you only like comedy moviesthis movie is nowhere near lightly-toned. Final Review Score: 9/10