Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan's greatest film

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2017)

It came across that Nolan wanted to put viewers in the same shoes as the soldiers and what many of them would have experienced. So it is exactly that, an experience that you get taken through with multiple perspectives rather than just a quick, simple paint by numbers, narrow perspective story like many films give you.
With the way it's shot and the sound is designed, there is an ever present and intense atmosphere of danger. You don't know where the Germans are or what they have on the way. All you do know is its got to be really bad because hundreds of thousands of British and French are trapped on a beach, trying to find any way they can to escape and survive. They can see England across the water with no where else to go and no way of getting over the channel.
Christopher Nolan often focuses on how the audience engages with the films he makes on a deep psychological level. He's not just about being historically accurate or on the other end of the spectrum throwing explosion after explosion at you. Hes more focused on the ways he can make you feel immersed and relate to the situations. The feeling of drowning, of being trapped in a small space and the fear of the unknown. Right now, I don't think you could possibly get closer to the feeling of how it may have been for the soldiers in Dunkirk when it actually happened.