Bummer....I was looking forward to this movie. From the article: When (Unbroken director Angelina Jolie) was asked what she hopes the audience will take away from Unbroken, she gave a humanistic answer and said, For my children and for everybody in the room, I want to be able to say, It can seem dark and it can seem hopeless and it can seem very overwhelming, but the resilience and the strength of the human spirit is an extraordinary thing. (Ibid) Jolie is using Louie’s life as a lesson in human potential when in fact Louie learned that human potential can only take one so far. Humans have an incredible potential for the greatest evils and only God can ultimately deliver us from sin, death and hell. Jolie spoke of Louie’s incredible ability to endure and later to forgive, but missed the fact that Louie could not just dig deep and make it happen, but could only forgive after He himself experienced it miraculously first hand, from a loving and all powerful God. A God who not only gave him an example through the cross of Christ, but supplied the power of His Holy Spirit to enable such forgiveness. Unfortunately, Jolie missed the central point of Louie’s life. Even before he was born again, he began to cry out to God for help and strength, whether it was when he was lost at sea or tortured as a POW. It was only through a relationship with Jesus Christ that he overcame his sin, his addictions, his profound hatred and his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Jolie seems to have put her own humanistic, new agey spin on the movie, which seems to teach that the answers to life’s problems are within. goodfight.org/a_v_unbroken.html
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:58:46 +0000
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