REVIEW: UNBROKEN
What a strange mindset the MPAA must have. I think back to one of my favorite movies of last year, Nebraska , and think; how did that film get an R-rating when it had maybe a handful of HBO words...and how did Unbroken , Angelina Jolie's second directorial effort, get a PG-13, when it has nearly if not more than the amount of torture in last year's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave ? Perhaps it's because you didn't see any blood gushing out, or any severe aftereffects like when Solomon Northup examined Patsy's slashed back, but please be warned parents to think twice before letting your 13 year old see this movie. I wouldn't be such a stickler about this issue, especially violence, which doesn't usually bother me in a non-horror film, because the trailer was rather deceptive. I don't know about the life of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell), just the articles I have read about him and the large press the film has received, mostly because...