Like a dream sequence.

Rating: 8/10 (6 August 2017)

Christopher Nolan, the Director of this film did a very good job at explaining a close to impossible story of failure on the shores of Dunkirk France in the 1940's. The movie opens up with an unknown British soldier walking into the French town of Dunkirk. The French forces are holding off the Nazis as best as they can behind a sandbag homemade barricade. In a way, it seems the French, through their ability to block one of the only streets leading to the Dunkirk beach, saved the lives of the British soldiers; and at the same time the British soldiers in the movie would not allow the French to escape with them on their sea vessels. This detail explains the complexity of war and the expression - all is fair in love and war. Christopher Nolan captures the true essence of the unknown British soldier and his need to survive against all the odds. The filming and the visual narratives showed the viewer the component of luck in many of the survival maneuvers. However, Dunkirk is also known historical to be an ultimate failure on the part of the British; and at the same time a miracle that three hundred thousand British soldiers were able to survive this defeat without being slaughtered by gun-fire, bombs and explosions. Christopher Nolan is a great film director for telling a somewhat open ended story and leaving the unraveling up to the viewer. Like a good novel the author leaves the interpretation up to the viewer. Christopher Nolan, intentional or not filmed this movie, Dunkirk in a dream sequence. Dreams are often collages of piece of visuals that at first make no sense, but on thinking about it, makes lots of sense. Dunkirk 2017 had three narratives: earth; air and water. Dunkirk 2017 was a very original movie. I have not seen a movie is this style before. The detailed camera work and special effects were pin pointed on accuracy. The sight of the spinning spitfire propeller while shooting the Nazis was miraculous. The long Dunkirk beach and the North Sea had some kind of religious aspect about it. The sea itself seems to be a monster. Also the visuals of all the sea foam on the beach caused by the crashing of the waves was like something in a Renaissance painting of Zeus, Venus and Aphrodite. As a viewer, one could almost taste the sea foam. Dunkirk was a failure for the British but in happened at the start of World War II and if all the soldiers would have been wiped out on the Dunkirk beach in 1940, there would have been no soldiers left to fight the Nazis. The British soldiers were able to fight another day; and in the end, the British and the Allied forces were able to bring down the Nazis, which probably would not have been possibly with out these specific soldiers there to help.