I saw Unbroken. It was just okay. The movie completely stripped Christianity from it. Hence the movie really made absolutely no sense, just some guy with a strong will.
The entire premise of the movie, or book, was the incredible amount of sustaining faith this guy possessed which sustained him through immense trial and hardship.
Yeah, it reminds me of Oliver Stone’s plane to remake The Fountainhead into an allegory about an anticapitalist hero who makes public housing.
Oh, yes, the one Angelina Jolie produced.
Ms. Jolie brilliantly *directed* Unbroken and she is getting better with each film she does. Followed by Unbroken, she made the Cambodian-language film First They Killed They My Father based on her friend Luong's childhood memories of growing up during the war and Khmer Rouge
Spoiler alert: the closing scene of the film shows Luong and the real-life adults that the children in the film had portrayed -- reuniting these years later and kneeling to pray and pay their respects before a Buddha statue and temple that had formerly been destroyed by the communists. (Their doing of which is a prior scene in the film.)
It was a beautifully shot scene and felt like a heartfelt tribute to FAITH in general, not merely Buddha-specific.
I don't know the details of Ms. Jolie's personal faith journey, but writer Barbara Nicolosi also has an essay entitled Why Do Heathens Make the Best Christian Films?