The Creative Genius Strikes Again

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2017)

Dunkirk:
You live or you die. But the struggle to survive, with the fear of knowing death is certain, is what makes a soldier's life disturbing and hard. Hope is what they have in plenty. Hope for peace. Hope for survival. Hope for Home. Dunkirk is a war film filled with emotions. When I first knew the title and backdrop of the story, I thought Mr. Nolan is doing a war film, and I can expect some very good war sequences with a mixture of some story content revolving it. But what I didn't foresee is, that a war movie can be filmed by showcasing the feelings and emotions of the soldiers, and that their struggle for survival is more intense compared to the actual war.
As always, this movie has Christopher Nolan written all over it in BOLD and CAPITALS. This is not a regular war film where two countries kill each other's soldiers in war grounds to prove their superiority. Dunkirk events are the outcome of a war. An epilogue. The story of the movie is quite simple and almost everyone knows. The evacuation of British and French forces at the shores of Dunkirk, while the German army surrounded them. The script is normal, but is intense in content and very very rich in emotions. All the characters carried the required feel for the audience to get connected to the scene. Some scenes in particular make you feel as if you are in the place and feeling what the character is suffering. Splendid picturisation of feelings. Hats off to the cinematography team.
Hans Zimmer is MAR-VE-LLOUS. This man proved what background score can do to a normal script. The BGM elevated some scenes to a level higher than expectations which, otherwise, would seem neutral. This is the heights of orchestra used to the fullest by the genius musician, to create a BGM so intense to carry the whole film on a single tone. Hands down Mr. Zimmer for this outstanding deliverance.
And finally coming to my Movie God, the class this man brought to movies is unmatched by any other film maker in recent times. No wonder the world calls him a Master in movie making. With Dunkirk, he yet again proves his class. Who would have thought a war movie can be made with master class written all over it. Not once in the movie, the faces of enemy is shown nor there is a derogatory comment on any country(which usually is seen in historical war movies). This proves why the world cinema respects him. Mr. Nolan could have easily filmed war on a grand scale, given his reputation and the budget he can get approved. But he chose to show the other side of war. A deeper and painful side. His characters are intense. His screenplay is splendid. And it would be a sin if I don't praise his world class Direction.
This legend never fails to amuse me, intrigue me and astound me in every way possible. He turned a normal movie into a blockbuster with his brilliant, unconventional, non-linear screenplay (ofcourse backed by the master mind Zimmer's scores). He is a genius in film making. His imagination knows no bounds. As always, I bow to him with all of me for this spectacle, which is a pure, raw, clean and class form of cinema. Hats-off Mr. Christopher Nolan. The movie world owes you a lot.
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