Posted on 07/18/2017 4:26:56 AM PDT by C19fan
Christopher Nolan's new film follows soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada and France as they're surrounded by the German army and evacuated during the eponymous World War II battle.
Dunkirk is an impressionist masterpiece. These are not the first words you expect to see applied to a giant-budgeted summer entertainment made by one of the industry's most dependably commercial big-name directors. But this is a war film like few others, one that may employ a large and expensive canvas but that conveys the whole through isolated, brilliantly realized, often private moments more than via sheer spectacle, although that is here, too. Somber, grim and as resolute in its creative confidence as the British are in this ultimate historical narrative of having one's back to the wall, this is the film that Christopher Nolan earned the right to make thanks to his abundant contributions to Warner Bros. with his Dark Knight trilogy. He's made the most of it.
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The Dark Knight was a very conservative series. The last movie was about GW outliving his usefulness and being hated by the people he protected.
I tend to believe Nolan leans right. He employs both perspectives in his movies though and he never seems to take the uber-left wing mentality.
I was skeptical originally making a whole movie on Dunkirk; but this review might sway me otherwise.
Saw it as a total rejection of anarchy which the left was embracing at the time.
I am skipping Spiderman for the family as it, as per Christian spotlight, knee deep in needless foul language.
Exactly. Explained what the Occupy Wall Street was all about. Extremely well done movie and message.
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