I think what people are missing is the scope of the story being told. Nolan was very much NOT telling the big story of Dunkirk. He was telling the SMALL story of Dunkirk, 3 people’s stories. The story of someone trying to get out. The story of someone trying to help because it’s his job (the pilot), and the story of someone trying to help because it’s his duty (the boat owner). All these wishes for a large version of the story, including worrying about supposed miracles, are just not getting it. This wasn’t The Longest Day, it is very deliberately NOT an epic. That movie got made in 1958, anybody wanting a Dunkirk epic should find that.
Exactly. It was like “Enemy at the Gates”, it was about one very small storyline during the Battle of Stalingrad, the sniper duel.