Movie Review: Dunkirk (2017)

over 2 years ago

Original title: Dunkirk
Year: 2017
Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan
With: Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles, Michael Caine
Duration: 106 min.
Grade: 8/10

Dunkirk (2017). At the time of its release I didn't see it in theaters (huge mistake), but now, knowing that it was a film directed by Christopher Nolan, I had to see it, being a film based on real events, it brings a load of major importance. Spoilers ahead.

It turns out that it is not about 10, or 20,000 soldiers, but about 350,000, approximately, not counting the locals, that is, the French. Churchill wants to evacuate at least 30 thousand of his men, but there is no way and the Nazis are killing them little by little, with snipers and explosives thrown from the air. And here we go with the spoiler.

The evacuation ends up being carried out with tens (or hundreds or thousands or millions😁😁 ) of small boats that sail from the British coast, either requisitioned by the Royal Navy or commanded by their owners, the latter, ordinary people with their luxury boats, salvaged boats from the scrapyard, fishing boats, rubber rafts, pedal boats, everything that could stay afloat.

One of the plot lines of the film focuses on the journey of one of those boats, the Moonstone, manned by Mr. Dawson, his son Peter and his cabin boy George. Others show us the fate of other characters, such as Major Bolton, in charge of the trapped soldiers, and especially that of one of these soldiers, Tommy Jensen, who from the beginning of the film is saved from an enemy ambush, and makes what he can to get to the final minutes alive.

Throughout the story, a squadron of the RAF does everything possible to defend each other from the attacks of the Luftwaffe, paying a very high cost. In general, Dunkirk is a very tough movie, even though it doesn't show us the mutilations and rawness of Saving Private Ryan (1998), but it takes the trouble to paint the characters and make us care and identify with them, in such a way that their deaths impact us even if we don't want them to, especially when they are absurd and perhaps avoidable, as happens at least once in the film.

As is common knowledge, Churchill not only got his 30 thousand soldiers, but ten times more. We already knew that, it's in the history books. But it doesn't matter that we know how the events unfolded: Dunkirk is a movie that shows the little stories that aren't in the books, keeps us guessing and keeps us immersed in it until the end. I think this movie is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to binge-watch WWII movies, along with Hacksaw Ridge, Saving Private Ryan, and Darkest Hour.

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2 comments

@cinetv 72

over 2 years ago

Thanks for your review! I haven't seen this film but I need to as soon as possible.

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@lifestyle.alfa 53

over 2 years ago

please watch it, you are going to love it.

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