Marvellous masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2018)

Dunkirk is told to be one of the greatest war movies ever made. A lot of reviews here on IMDb are bad ones about christoffer Nolan and expected storytelling a la Batman and inception. Personally im glad that I didn't know about Nolan directing the movie until I started watching.
I wouldn't be to keen about watching a movie about a war and knowing it was Nolan making it. Nolan is a director who known for dreamy telling and grandiose dark movies with scenes that blows your mind.
This movie, is the totally opposite. Many reviews are about expectations about a movie like the others. And when the movie is finished people found it boring and low-key.
But it's just that. The low-key story about three different places and people (soldiers on the beach, a pilot in the air and a civilian boat crew on the ocean) that Nolan blows me away again. The stories is full of emotions but the actors are amazing playing it so smal and narrow. It never goes to panic, just a feeling it's on the way all the time.
You never see the Germans. A couple of bombs and shootings and you just know they are everywhere. It's a smart move from Nolan to make the movie even more thrilling just knowing the situation is out of control.
Just sounds, the actors dejection and music makes it more terrifying than any horrormovie.
My sister told me about Utoya (in Swedish Utöya) a movie about a terror action from one Norwegian man a couple of years ago. If you don't know the story this man (Anders Behring Breivik) first detonate a bomb in Oslo as a decoy. The plan were to make the Norwegian police focus on the bomb as Breivik went up to the island Utoya. Every year the partie"arbeidernes ungdomsforbund" (kids active in Norway's biggest political partie) have a camp on the island. As the Norwegian police were in Oslo busy with the bomb Breivik went to the island covered as a cop starting to shoot people. In the end almost 100 people died.
This is a true story and my sister told me it were the most terrifying movie she seen. The movie is in real time as Breivik were on the island for 93 minutes. In the movie you never see breivik. You just hear the shoots. And just telling me about it made me cry.
Dunkirk is similar to this. It just meditates feelings and anxiety. I almost stopped watching because the claustrophobia were all over me. My own feelings were triggered in a way not many movies managed to do.
Dunkirk is a masterpiece and Nolan is a genius again. Even though the lack of Heath Ledger standing in the street with closeups on hes twisted face waiting for the bat mobile in a scene so grandiose your stomach turns up side down.