Collective Emotion and Visual Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2018)

Amazing cinematography.
This is a movie which has to be seen.
Yes, there are no well developed individual characters.
However I think this was intentional. The intent I think was to describe a few collective characters.
The emotion was there - I actually cried many times during the film. It's about the collective characters of british soldiers, of the british people, soldiers, commanders, nurses, etc., involved in the whole thing.
And that the individual person actually doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. Many individual soldiers might day. 50/50 chance maybe. But their individual contribution - taken together with others' actually matters a lot.
In the end it tries to be I think quite accurate historically on the feeling picture and see it from that specific time. When no one was actually ultra happy or victorious because it was just an evacuation.
Visually it's great.
The soundtrack is great and actually makes the movie. Seems to be one take with no pause, which is impressive.
I think the director tried to convey the general feeling at the time, historical accuracy on that level (not on microlevel), and a collective emotion. . And a bit of artistic movie making.
Instead of general entertainment - a love story + explosions and triumph. like Pearl Harbor for example which I also liked a lot but for different reasons.
I also missed more action in this movie. At least from the commanders part - some planning, discussions, etc..