Unbroken

Have you ever watched a movie or read a book and tried to put yourself in the shoes of the main character?  Imagined yourself going through all their trials and tribulations and asked yourself the question "could I survive"?  That is our new theme and mission for this round.

This episode focuses on 'Unbroken', the 2014 film adaptation of the excellent 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand.  Written by the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese and William Nicholson and directed by Angelina Jolie the film follows American Olympian and Army officer Louis Zamperini who survived in a raft for 47 days after his bomber ditched in the ocean during the Second World War, before being captured by the Japanese and being sent to a series of prisoner of war camps.

We also discuss our own brushes with mortality and discuss what it really means to survive.