War is not magnificent and is fought within the individual

Rating: 10/10 (14 May 2018)

So many scathing reviews here. I love war movies. I grew up on war and westerns. Nowadays I realize the majority are revisionist and hyper glorified nonsense. America lost Vietnam, Rambo won it back. White men destroyed the Natives and John Wayne tamed the savages. It's manipulation of reality by the victors.
Nolan's Dunkirk is war of the individual. We all experience the world from our POV and the only way to understand the horrors of sanctioned murder is to see what the individual experiences. So no Private Ryan mastrubatory war shots in this film. Just dread and waiting. Waiting for your extinction or moving on to the next event to see if you will live to see Home and family.
With Zimmers' fugue like music and Nolan's photochemical film experience Dunkirk is a Post Modern masterpiece that shows was the horrors that we as nations inflict on our young men and women. And the inherent love and good that the ordinary person can evoke for his fellow humans.
Beautifully made by a man who wanted our latest generation and others beyond to remember what those who have gone before us have given for our freedoms.