Dunkirk is a paradoxical masterpiece in cinema

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2017)

Cutting to the chase - Dunkirk is unlike any other war movie ever seen:

War movie with zero men shown from the winning camp and yet you feel the terror of it throughout the movie!

Words are the most basic medium to communicate for any movie. Dunkirk has minimal dialogues. Film mainly relies on visual and sonic story telling.

No single pivot or character around which the movie revolves. Every character is just something for us to latch on to and see us in their shoes.

Background score primarily based of a single ticking music recorded from Nolan's own watch, perfectly showcasing the race against time.

A terror striking war movie with hardly any blood, gut and severed limbs being shown! Pretty unconventional I would say.

It's not a movie about heroics or courage. It's a movie about survival. People saving themselves. Most war movies showcase an inspiring unlikely triumph by people with immense grit and fortitude.

It's a movie where common men are the real heroes. The people who sailed in the little ships of Dunkirk.

It's based on a real life WW2 incident with a one liner story and hardly any dialogues. No major surprises here for the audience since the story line is constrained by history.

No big location jumps across the movie. Set on the beaches of Dunkirk and the 30 mile sea to England.

No back stories, no famous characters, no relationships.

Just pure intimate cinematic experience of being in there for a week with the soldiers, a day on the boat and an hour in the sky! It's non linear screenplay keeps you guessing and riveting throughout the movie like a full on thriller. Hats off Nolan!