"There's no hiding from this, son. We have a job to do."

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2017)

Set in 1940, the story revives around a port called Dunkirk where approximately 400,000 soldiers of allied forces got stuck with no available escapes through the mainland and stay in the hope of a miracle of their survival by a probable evacuation. Director depicted the story from three different perspectives with three different time horizons that intersect each other eventually!
Dunkirk merely a character driven film with their heroic tales as it never explains the background of any of its characters that much on how, why and from where they got stuck in a French port and their purposes rather portrays the fact of the survival of those 400,000 soldiers from their counterpart by the only means of evacuation.
Nolan's Dunkirk remains as a visual treat with the best cinematographic experience and splendid sound design till date! It feels like you are in the actual situation!
The movie hardly has any dialogues and might be the only of its genre where the background score never stops breathing and keeps the audience gripped in it spontaneously! It acts like the heart which keeps it alive.
It's not an ordinary film that you watched and understood on a first go with the perplexed time horizons involved but the storytelling is pretty straightforward this time unlike Nolan's other films like Memento, Inception or Interstellar lately.
Forget everything and stop expecting any of that sorts, if you have already watched Schindler's list, The pianist, Downfall, Saving Private Ryan or even recent release Hacksaw Ridge. Dunkirk hardly belongs to that genre. It's not a typical war film rather a survival film with almost no bloodshed!!!
Director Christopher Nolan crafted the thought of making Dunkirk almost 25 years back. It's his most ambitious project till date and an apparent research paper with pure depiction of a wartime situation without revealing the plot!