Nolan's film tells the story of Dunkirk from separate angles, land sea and air. Despite the fact that German forces had halted their crushing advance on Dunkirk (giving the Allies some time to organise the evac), the Luftwaffe were still hitting the port and its beaches and enemy troops were still on the ground. Up to 400 various manned craft were voluntarily used and braved the English Channel along with various military vessels. Situated in Northern France, Dunkirk was the location of the massive evac operation which saw large numbers of British civilians man their own vessels in order to assist with the rescue. They were stranded, being attacked from both land and air with the sea to their backs, nowhere to run. The allies were literally fish in a barrel to the German forces. British, Belgian and French troops were cut off within Dunkirk, surrounded by advancing German troops. I can ramble all night but at the end of the day, this is a fantastic war film.Ĭhristopher Nolan's latest offering is an accurate representation of an event that occurred in 1940 during WWII. Murphy pulls off an extremely convincing victim of shellshock and very possibly PTSD as a soldier who is marooned on the lifeless skeleton of his former ship. When I had heard a small radio spot about the film being screened for actual survivors of the retreat of the battle of Dunkirk I thought to myself "Nolan is so sure of his ability to bring authenticity to the big screen and pay homage to this time in history that he is willing to let those who were really there be the first judges." It feels like a dire retreat from start to finish and the stakes are only getting higher and higher as there is this ever-increasing sense of tension in the score of Dunkirk that keeps getting more intense as the film progresses. Dunkirk is why IMAX theaters exist and why people buy giant widescreen televisions as this film is a feast for the eyes that the chef Christopher Nolan has been preparing his whole life to give to the audience.
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