Dare I say it? Better than SPR

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2017)

Most war movie follows a protagonist or a few "hero" characters which is the norm for Hollywood action movies.
In my opinion, Dunkirk had little to no action. It is about the soldier, the human emotion and the morality.
Some complained about the movie having too little dialogue to tell the story but I disagree. The use of sparing dialogue is used to further strengthen the display of human emotion when under extreme stress and threat.
For a historical war film such as this, I suspect Nolan didn't even care about telling the history side of the story too much because he'd expect you have already read a little on the subject.
This is a very different take, refreshing and intimate, than other "hero" war films. The fact that Nolan achieved a war film with no hero characters, minimal dialogue and hardly any action is amazing. To people who complain about those, you simply have no sense in cinematic values or you find it hard to comprehend the story of what Nolan is trying to convey.
The story is not Dunkirk, the story is the people at Dunkirk.