Unbroken Movie Analysis

Surviving the war was not a matter of intelligently planned decisions, but a series of reactions triggered by primal instincts. The animal instincts within strong soldiers inhibited

World War 1 has been a famous war throughout history. Many films have been made surrounding it, sometimes realistic and sometimes not so much. Paths of Glory and All Quiet on the Western Front were two such movies that depicted the Great War. Each movie is unique in their own sense and although no movie will completely convey the harsh reality of the war some movies are better than others. Depending on when and what year the war would have looked vastly different to different soldiers. Some would only know the reality of the trench while others would recognize “tanks” rolling over the ground which were impenetrable to normal gun fire. Which side of the war one was on would have also lead to different views, as in when one side is winning the other is losing, and when morale is up on one side normally morale is down on the other.

We have all seen or read about the political and social upheavals caused by war. Some may have even experienced it first-hand. Throughout history war has had negative psychological implications on those effected. However, there is no greater negative impact of war than the psychological and emotional turmoil that it causes individual soldiers.

Precious is a movie that was produced based off a book. The movie was a story about a 16-year-old girl Claireece “Precious” Jones who was abused by her family emotionally, physically, mentally, and sexually. (Magness, Siegel-Magness, & Daniels, 2009) Taking at a look at this from a social worker perspective one can look at how to address the situation and how one work with a potential client like Precious. The film addresses many issues that a client may come across including the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

In the movie Precious, a 16-year old girl named Claireece Jones also known as Precious is physically, sexually, and verbally abused by her parents. Precious has one child and is now pregnant with her second child which causes her to be kicked out of school. She transfers to an alternative school. Precious is illiterate; however, she learns to read, write, and to gain self-respect from her teacher at the alternative school. In the end, she becomes a woman, learning to stand up for herself and she raises two healthy children. There are three different types of abuse Precious faced from her parents. An example of how Precious mother physically abused would be when her mother would get out the chair and beat her daughter by throwing things at her, because she did something minor or nothing at all. Precious mother verbally abused her daughter by calling her “stupid, fat, and she will amount to nothing”. An example of how Precious father sexually abused her would be he raped ever since she was three years old, impregnated her with two children, and he also gave her HIV. The movie faced several biological and environmental issues in the family. One example of a biological issue faced in the movie would be when Precious was hungry, needed water, and sleep. She needed to have this because she was pregnant with her second child. In the movie, it shows Precious goes into a restaurant, to order some food, and runs out without paying. She stole the food because she was starving and her mom did not give her any money. An environmental issue would be Precious was from Harlem, New York. During that time, Harlem was a city in poverty, so she grew up with hardly any money. The income her mother got from her welfare check, she did not give Precious anything.

The Miracle Movie in 1980 Victory of U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team and the Soviet Union. This movie show that the coach make the team united and won the game.

Louis had been assigned to the Army Air Corps in 1941, becoming a bombardier for a B-24 Liberator. “Flat-faced, rectangular, and brooding, the B-24 had looks only a myopic mother could love” (Hillenbrand, 63). Surprisingly, Louie was very good at his position in the military, often being able to hit his mark with accuracy. Although he seemed to enjoy his time in the air, it was only a matter of time before he realized the very real danger he faced. Whether it be from threats of enemy bombs or running the risk of casualties in training.

When a person enters war, the boarder between what is real and what is imagined starts to blur. It becomes obscured by the overload of stimuli experienced in

The soldiers face loneliness, isolation, the heavy burden of fear, and the weight of their reputations. The soldiers carry such a heavy weight from the past, in the present, and for the future. Even after the war, the psychological burdens the men carried during the war continues to define them. Those who survive the war carry guilt, grief, and confusion.

In the opening remarks of the first chapter, Ernst Junger describes the idealistic origins of many of the soldiers called to action. Most of the soldiers drafted into the war were students and factory workers, all of whom lived a fairly sheltered life beforehand. Being drafted was seen as the adventure of a lifetime. They “shared a yearning for danger, for the experience of the extraordinary.” Much like his comrades, Junger had the same sense of adventure, seeing the war as merely a new challenge to conquer. After his first real experience with war however, his enthusiasm is quickly dashed. The harsh reality set in that this war was not, in fact, an adventure. Junger and the former schoolboys and craftsmen quickly learned that life in the trenches was a challenge of endurance. As the war persists, reality slowly sets in and Junger learns the true violent nature of the war and the constant threat of imminent danger through which he must persevere. Ernst Junger’s accounts in the memoir Storm of Steel show the reality of a soldier in World War I and the taxation of enduring such great trauma.

When in war, the statement, In times of war we are not able to be our full human selves. This states that there is such an adrenaline rush that people become robots.These paragraphs will explain some examples of these statements. This statement will also express some of the good times of war like around the fire with your comrades to when the whiskey is passed out. These paragraphs will also contain things about irony and karma.

At Champagne he is yet again a runner in a big defensive position. During an attack by the Germans, he accepts death, and in turn becomes “fearless,” one of the very few times it happens. Surviving this makes him want to live even more, which seems plausible because of the American troops that are now arriving. He then becomes involved in a regiment at Alsace where they are very optimistic of surviving the war. After a couple attacks here, the ceasefire is declared on the eleventh of November, in 1918. As the war ends he reflects what he and his fellow soldiers have been put through, and fears the people back at home will never understand the monstrosity that is war.

The horrors of war were depicted by the constant threats to the characters lives, the brutal conditions of the bad weather, hunger and combat. Soldiers had to battle the enemy along with nature. Soldiers would become stressed, paranoid and start losing their personalities. As Captain Miller says, “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.” This quote shows the mental toll on these soldiers.

“Ambush” by Tim O’Brien and “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway both develop the theme that hardships soldiers experience due to war persist beyond their time in combat. Hemingway shows this through the difficulty a group of soldiers have returning to their normal lives after being wounded in the First World War. Although the soldiers visit “the hospital every afternoon”, the severity of their injuries and the experimental nature of the treatment suggest that they will never fully recover from their wounds. In addition to the physical changes they have undergone, their “long time with death” during the war has left them “detached” from normal life. In “Ambush,” O’Brien expands upon how war mentally affects soldiers through his narrator’s

The “Lost Battalion” film was a great film about World War One. It showed a lot about the horrors of the war. It also brilliantly depicted the reality of the war.