A WWII story inside the Inception studio makers minds

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2018)

Juxtaposed human stories of being trapped inside the ticking time bomb of German occupied France. The Christopher Nolan recreation of this famous English story is a noble effort and will entrench you in the three storylines filled with the brutality of wartime death, nightmarish never ending fear, and that elusive feeling of hope. But not to be forgotten, this is a movie about an almost mythical story, as reminded in the conclusion.
But as a Nolan film, much like his peer Tarantino, you can only compare their films to their previous films and not genre based comparisons. Here, the forced juxtaposition of the stories further enforces the pending doom and with the same Hans Zimmer score master as Inception, the films' experiences seem more than familiar. Inception has a small number of personal stories to attach yourself to amidst the confusing time lines and ever ramped up volume and here is where Dunkirk suffers.
Like many war epics, the sheer numbers of uniformed soldiers pushes away the audiences' ability for character introspection and attachment to their experience beyond surface level. But this is a story of a people of valor, honor, compassion and sacrifice. It's also a story that ends in the tattered threads of misunderstanding and unfounded guilt and I'd like to think that is what wartime's stories should bring us. It's never about individual persons but the greater picture of people.