Jolie misses the point in 'Unbroken'

Jolie misses the point in 'Unbroken'

Don't waste your time or money on the movie "Unbroken." Read the book instead.

Ms. Jolie needs to keep her day job as actress and stay out of deciding what to put from a hero's life onto a screen. Jolie fails to capture the real story - a war hero who had every apparent right for vengeance, literally "comes to Jesus" and returns to forgive. That's the story, not elongated images in a life raft or endless scenes of brutality.

I can watch CNN if I want to know about the latest beheaded journalist. I would have thought that Jolie's own story of endurance turned to charity for others would have informed how she'd cinematize Louis Zamperini's life where his "spirituality" originated at a Billy Graham meeting. Here, he begins a journey of knowing God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Jolie buries this headline with two texts at this unfortunate film's end. That is, her editorial bias denies her main actor his constitutional right to freely exercise his religion. Political correctness trumps truth yet again.

What does Hollywood have to do with Washington? Looking for a good movie? See "The Theory of Everything." Here, at least, documented personal history and dramatic portrayal meet on the screen.

Paul O. Bischoff Sr.

Wheaton