Variety: Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’
Christopher Nolan recreates the World War II evacuation from land, sea and air, interweaving events in a bravura virtual-eyewitness account.
Steven Spielberg laid claim to the Normandy beach landing, Clint Eastwood owns Iwo Jima, and now, Christopher Nolan has authored the definitive cinematic version of Dunkirk. Unlike those other battles, however, this last was not a conventional victory, but more of a salvaged retreat, as the German offensive forced a massive evacuation of English troops early in World War II. And unlike those other two directors, Nolan is only nominally interested in the human side of the story as he puts his stamp on the heroic rescue operation, offering a bravura virtual-eyewitness account from multiple perspectives — one that fragments and then craftily interweaves events as seen from land, sea and air.
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WNU editor: This movie is long overdue.
Originally they thought they could only get back maybe 30,000.
ReplyDeleteMy grandad, a fisherman in Kent, went over in his fishing boat and got some men back. Then he joined the RN.
ReplyDeleteThis pg13 sanitised version is an insult to thise who survived the horrors of war.
ReplyDeleteWe were soldiers director should have tackled it.
I was dreaming of Dunkirk last night, the advertising is very intense, I won't watch War Movies just so much Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteFactual "war movies" based on real events should be realistic and portray war accurately.
DeleteFilms like "The dirty dozen" whilst fun fit your fantasy criteria, however We were soldiers, Black Hawke Down,SPR, etc are not.
This portrayal of Dunkirk wholst a real event is so sanatised that its a discredit and trivializes those who survived.
Spoke about this to a ww2 veteran at the RSL the other night, and he said trailer was rubbish nonsense.
Factual "war movies" based on real events should be realistic and portray war accurately.
DeleteFilms like "The dirty dozen" whilst fun fit your fantasy criteria, however We were soldiers, Black Hawke Down,SPR, etc are not.
This portrayal of Dunkirk wholst a real event is so sanatised that its a discredit and trivializes those who survived.
Spoke about this to a ww2 veteran at the RSL the other night, and he said trailer was rubbish nonsense.
If BEF doesn't escape the Nazis would have won the war!
ReplyDeleteNah, the US won the Western front anyway, Brits were a sideshow.
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