This movie is about SURVIVAL. Stop analyzing it. JUST ENJOY A MASTERPIECE.

Rating: 9/10 (5 August 2017)

I rarely write reviews about movies. I love movies, I just don't have the time. I think I am pretty entitled to discuss movies as I've seen more than one thousand movies. From Schwarzenegger flicks to Tarantino to Gone with the Wind to obscure Korean, Japanese or European movies. I just love movies.
Enough intro. The reason I decided to write is because a lot of people comment on this movie's lack of character development or historical inaccuracies. Although, from an historical point of view, I think this is one of the more accurate ones. Anyway, I just feel that sometimes people are just complete haters, are bored or are so disgusted with themselves that they need to throw stones at anything that doesn't resonate with their particular tastes.
Dunkirk is a masterpiece. It's not meant to develop stories or show guts on a beach or make us feel better with a heroic happy ending. It's a movie about survival. Just that. No one will tell the story of their life when they run for their life, unless you're in a Spielberg movies. Everyone wants to live for another day. Cornered animals are either fighting or trying to escape. At Dunkirk the soldier had no one to fight. The Germans attacked from the sky. Yes, there was no guts flying around, it's PG13, but to be honest, if you enjoy seeing guts on screen, you're probably very niché. I cannot call it art. Let's say some directors like this realism, which I don't mind, but I don't miss either. Finally, there's no heroic happy ending. Dunkirk was in 1940, the beginning of the war. No one knew what they were dealing with and the film shows that.
This became my favorite movie after I saw it in IMAX 70MM. It's an amazing piece of cinema. It kept me engaged, kept everyone around me on the edge of their seat, almost cheering during certain scenes or crying during others. The music just blends with the images. It's just glorious.
Why it's my favorite movie? After more than one thousand movies, this movie stayed with me and I wanted to see it again, one week after. That never happened before.
It's a beautiful movie and if people would stop trying to have this negative vibe, would see the beauty of it.