The aerial sequences are particularly breathtaking as an experience, but nothing in this movie isn’t grittily beautiful. As straightforward as the film is, its director still finds a way to do things a bit differently relative to structure. As you watch Dunkirk, expect to be engrossed in all sides of the conflict and the rescue mission, but also anticipate a moment where your mind will bend for a few seconds. To add a bit more intrigue and to keep the audience off kilter, Christopher Nolan twists the concept of time. The illustrations of the theater of war are exquisite, brutal, and impossible to avoid. This is the way Dunkirk is laid out, with three separate stories that all relate and converge upon one another, but in the most natural and seamless of ways. We don’t need to know any more about him. I have no idea if any of this is true, but it’s as accurate as anything else, because the only thing that matters about Farrier is what he’s doing in that aircraft and how his heroism might save lives. As Tom Hardy’s Farrier darts across the sky, attempting to keep dive bombers off his countrymen and allies, we’re expected to know he has loved ones, enjoys football, and reads Whitman in his spare time.
What makes Dunkirk so unique is its unwillingness to spoon feed the audience any of its story, its direction, or any of its personalities to us. We don’t meet the families, we don’t see flashbacks of dinners, fireplaces, or Christmas morning. While we get to know the various characters in the film, we do so in Nolan’s way, rather than our own. Within two minutes, gunfire is ringing out and people are in grave danger. As usual, we don’t see Nolan’s name until the closing credits, and we get directly into the action with a simple “DUNKIRK” across a black screen. Here, Christopher Nolan dropped the fantasy, pushed the wonder off a boat, and gave us a truly terrifying 108 minute hellscape.įrom the immediacy and dread emanating from the movie’s first scene, Dunkirk has no time for your bullshit. Still, this felt like the time for him to do something like Dunkirk, rather than take us through another fictional landscape of fantasy, wonder, and nightmare. It was a bold choice, because of the sheer number of WWII films in existence, not to mention the oversaturate nature of the war genre as a whole. Upon watching Dunkirk, I was rendered speechless.Īfter followers, memory challenges, magic, dirty cops, Caped Crusaders, tricksters, dream weavers, teachers, and even space and time wranglers, Nolan chose to go to World War II and depict one of the more significant, but often overlooked events during that time in history. Upon watching Interstellar, I liked it, but I knew it wasn’t one of his better films. Upon watching The Dark Knight, I realized I would never enjoy a movie more in my life. When you revere someone as much as I do Nolan, there’s a level of expectation that must be met in order to avoid disappointment. Just have to put that out there, but that “love” doesn’t generally mean easy street on any of my reviews.
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Full disclosure: Christopher Nolan is my favorite director.
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