War is the main character and I love it

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2018)

"Dunkirk" is a relentless 1 hour and 46 minutes of war... and I love it.
This was a first for me - on a couple of accounts. It's the first War film I've ever seen, but it's also the first Christopher Nolan film I've ever watched.
I know, I still haven't seen the Dark Knight Trilogy (and I'm a Batman fan). It's a weird contradiction.
"Dunkirk" does this really interesting thing, that while there are characters and you obviously don't want them to die, there's not your typical:
"Here's Joe. Joe has a wife and kids at home. Let's hope that Joe doesn't die, so that he can go home to his kids. Oh, no. Joe just died!"
It doesn't have that, because the main character in "Dunkirk" is the battle of Dunkirk. The sights, the sounds, and the raw emotions are what you get in this film and it's amazing.
Nolan does quite a few fantastic things when it comes to the production of this film. I love the timeline element, where there's three independent stories happening within the span of a week, a day, and an hour, respectively.
I also love the fact that there's very little CGI, if at all. There are real planes, real boats and thousands of real people.
Whether you like War films or not, this is a great film to just get immersed in. Go see it if you haven't already.
Hear me talk more about "Dunkirk" here: youtu.be/HfSouIJXGhw