If Stanley Kubrick Made A World War Two Film, It Would Be Dunkirk!

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2017)

THIS is how you do practical filmmaking and still make it feel innovative in a digital age of media while making your film seem comparable to classics like Saving Private Ryan and FullMetal Jacket. Basically everything in Dunkirk is analogue, practical and it doesn't need to depend on overblown-CGI trickery whatsoever. Chris Nolan has given us a war movie that feels like it came from the mind of Stanley Kubrick; the scale, larger-than-life direction and impeccable cinematography all makes this film feel like it's the creative offspring of the great-late Kubrick himself.
Chris Nolan has made another masterpiece for the ages and easily one of the best films of the 21st Centry just like he seamlessly achieved with Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and finally Dunkirk (as of this writing).
Dunkirk tackles one of the most overlooked events of the Second World War (at least in cinema) and even in the first fifteen minutes of the movie it's instantaneously better and FAR more respectable than films like Pear Harbour. With Dunkirk, Nolan NEVER disrespects the tensions of the war and the horror it brought about, and there isn't a moment where he tries glorifying the terror. This is a war film without physical grit but PLENTY of psychological dilemmas that actually perfectly fits this kind of war-movie. Sometimes it's the emotion that's more impacting than seeing the entrails of characters going all over the place like in Saving Private Ryan (that film is still fantastic); the paranoia amongst the British and French soldiers in this film is its own form of horror. You start to wonder how the hell did the Allied forced win against the Nazis in the end? Well we did; and the events of Dunkirk changed the modern world forever.
If you're a fan of Chris Nolan's work, please see this movie, be it on IMAX-70mm, regular 70mm or 35mm or digital; just see it at the movies regardless of the format. It's an ABSOLUTE MUST-SEE!