War for Generation Y

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2017)

Regarding the movie Dunkirk
When Saving Private Ryan premiered in Bristol 1998, I was the youngest person in the theatre. Around me were elderly English war vets. I could tell, they wore their veteran uniforms and veteran badges. During a couple of hours elderly men and women quietly sobbed in their seats watching, and possibly reliving, the war all over again.
This wasn't a normal cinema experience and I don't think I will ever experience one like this again. It changed my view on war and the fact that I and my country Sweden, in fact have no experience of war in modern time. But we are pretty much the only ones in Europe, or the entire world for that matter, with a 200 year history without wars.
Steven Spielberg pulled this off. He made Europe remember WWII all over again and he educated the young and helped (?) elderly to closure. Spielberg is a movie maker who knows very well his genres and how to not mess with them.
Enter Chris Nolan. A movie maker famous and known for science fiction and fantasy. With Dunkirk he shows at least me that he is as predictable as a dull Adam Sandler.
My biggest concern when I sat down to watch Dunkirk was weather Nolan would stay true to the genre or if he would put his sci-fi magic into it. After ten minutes I realised I was watching Interstellar again and I had to fight the urge to actually leave the theatre. What annoyed me the most was the sci-fi sound effects, scifi music score and the shallowness of the historical event.
Is the movie good? Well, Nolan's fans will probably like it, Generation Y will like it but people who, like me, had a life changing experience with Saving Private Ryan, won't be as thrilled or impressed. Imagine Schindler's List in the hands of Christopher Nolan. Darn right, thanks but no thanks.
I didn't like it at all.