{"id":13556,"date":"2018-09-10T17:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2018-09-10T17:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T21:48:35","slug":"13556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2018\/09\/13556.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d Shows How Faith Saved Veteran When the War Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d is the sequel to the Academy Award nominated 2015 film, \u201cUnbroken.\u201d \u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d continued to follow the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian and World War II POW.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 film \u201cUnbroken\u201d told the incredible story of Louis Zamperini\u2019s early life and war years. As a boy he had a habit of getting himself into trouble by drinking, stealing and smoking, but Louis learned discipline and turned his life around when he began training to be a distance runner. He earned the nickname \u201cThe Torrance Tornado\u201d after his hometown of Torrance, and came in 8<sup>th<\/sup> at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Captured after his plane crashed in 1943, Louis was placed in a POW camp and tortured by Mutsuhiro Watanabe. Louis, however, refuses to break and is eventually rescued by American troops. \u201cUnbroken\u201d ended with Louis returning home to America and featured a brief slideshow about what happened to Louis after the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnbroken\u201d ended on a high note, with Louis\u2019 rescue, the information about his marriage and two children, his forgiveness of his captors and finally running a leg of the Olympic Torch relay for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. While this fits with its aim of being an inspirational story, the film received criticism for seeming to gloss over Louis\u2019 struggle with PTSD and alcoholism after the war as well as his conversion to Christianity. \u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d picks up where \u201cUnbroken\u201d left off and depicts Louis\u2019 struggle to heal from his experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to be released on September 14, 2018, \u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d shows how Louis was haunted by his time as a POW. He fell in love with and married a woman named Cynthia, but Louis\u2019 trauma and desire for revenge nearly destroyed his marriage and chances at healing. The couple, however, managed to find healing after meeting Billy Graham on one of his Crusades and converting to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d has been called the spiritual successor to \u201cUnbroken\u201d and promises to be a moving story about what it takes to heal and move forward after trauma and the role faith and love play in healing. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=66aOpcEchZk\" target=\"_blank\">trailer is available online now,<\/a> and the film will be in theaters September 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Unbroken: Path To Redemption - Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/66aOpcEchZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d is the sequel to the Academy Award nominated 2015 film, \u201cUnbroken.\u201d \u201cUnbroken: Path to Redemption\u201d continued to follow the story of Louis Zamperini, a former Olympian and World War II POW. The 2015 film \u201cUnbroken\u201d told the incredible story of Louis Zamperini\u2019s early life and war years. 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