Angelina Jolie has turned Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling biography Unbroken into an inspirational movie. But could it have been even more inspiring? My latest BuzzFeed blog is called…
Here is an excerpt:
However, the fact remains the movie omits a very special moment – a moving healing that is a highlight of the biography on which Jolie’s film is based. Leaving this out robs Zamperini’s story of his threshold experience – exchanging years of hell for over six decades of comparative heaven.
Of course, biographer Laura Hillenbrand’s work on Zamperini also stresses the heroics of the US Olympian’s terrifying war experience – plane downed, weeks adrift on a raft, brutal captivity. But, just as importantly, it details the spiritual salvation of a man who WAS broken, terribly broken…
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