Dunkirk Litty

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2018)

Dunkirk is a war movie that depicts the struggle and tragedy that happened in Dunkirk, France towards the beginning of the Second World War. Dunkirk was played in the perspective of different people who experienced the event, switching from first person. The constant suspense that you could tell was going through the characters minds helped demonstrate the intensity of this event. For example, when the scenes were switching between what was going on with the different characters, from the sitting ducks on the coast waiting to be bombed by the Germans, to the British Air Force that were protecting the ships from bombings.
The story starts off with a boy, probably part of a squad running through a city in France. There are gunshots behind him shooting all his comrades, and he continues to run away from the gunshots. He eventually finds his way to the beach where soldiers are waiting to be picked up by battleships. Over there there are German Air Force planes that are bombing the defenseless soldiers. Priorities are to take people who are injured or need help aboard the battleships first. The boy, finds someone who is injured and makes his way to a battleship, getting on the boat because he has to ticket to get on (the injured person).
The scene shifts to show a family, two sons and a father, who own a boat on the opposite coast of Dunkirk are are preparing to travel to Dunkirk to pick up soldiers. This was one of the strategies that was used to pick up soldiers that were left for dead. Something big like a battleship would be too big of a target for the German Air Force. However, instead of using a few battleships, many civilian boats can come, each being able to carry a limited amount of soldiers but combined, become a lot. Also, the battleships weren't used because they figured that they already lost that battle and didn't want to use up all the boats. They were saving the battleships for the next battle.
One other perspective in the war was with one of the badass British Air Force spitfire planes that were protecting the battleships from bombings from the German Air Force. The story shifted to be in the minds of one of the British squad consisting on three planes. One of the planes were shot down. The perspective of the person we went into was someone whose gas gauge was shot out. So he doesn't know how much ga she ha slept. He relies of his last friend to tell him how much he has. This man is a hero, he took out a bunch of German planes. However, eventually, his friend also gets shot down and is forced to touchdown. Eventually, the pilot runs out of fuel and shoots down his last German plane before touching down and getting captured by German forces.
If you are really into action movies with violence and a lot of suspense, then this movie is going to be great for you. Some of the things that happened were so crazy. Although a lot of events that happened were sad, it helped appeal more to the audience, making them connect more with the characters. Throughout the movie, we learned about the historical background on this memorable event, along with what it might have been like in the eyes of some of the people who experienced it.
Looking at some of the reviews for the movie Dunkirk, I noticed that there were a few low ratings of the movie. Like that is so bad. I just watched the movie over last weekend because i was looking for a nice historical war movie and I guess I was technically being productive because it was homework. Anyways, the main argument that the critic used against the movie is that it didn't allow the audience to connect with the characters in the movie. However, i feel that the main focus in this movie was to portray the intense things a that can happen in the movie. The goal of it was to show how suspenseful Dunkirnk really was. I feel that not focusing on one particular character so that the audience connnects with them was in a way, a sort of theme because then it focuses on the more broad tragedy of the entire scene, instead of just one person.