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"Dunkirk" is different from the World War II film in the impression, the bloody storm on the European battlefield, the bombardment of aircraft, tanks and shells, and the sacrifice and destruction of the last large-scale hot war in the human world.
There are also planes in the movie. They just fly alone, taking cover, intercepting, and shooting down with limited capabilities.
The shells are Germans who have never shown their faces and whose faces are clear, like Dunkirk surrounded by only the fear of being surrounded by death.
Ships by the sea, trestle bridges on land, and boundless beaches make this war movie, which takes place in summer, as lonely, bleak, and helpless as winter.
It is different from Nolan's previous works. The actors have the same style, but they no longer have full emotions to erupt. Without exception, they have become small dots on the historical map, even like small black dots in the big vista overlooking. These vague bits and pieces eventually turned into a huge number of historical progress, and 340,000 Allied soldiers were successfully evacuated and rescued.
Nolan uses three character clue scenarios: Lu (soldiers waiting to retreat), Hai (civilian ships being rescued), and Kong (Royal Air Force), but the time course of each line is different, and the time of the land port is one week. , the sea rescue time is twenty hours a day. Air time is more pressing, only one hour.
In the movie, they meet for a short time: the ace pilot shoots down the enemy plane, the boat saves the drowning soldier, and then they fly away again, completely deviating from the traditional climax of the dramatic conflict.
Therefore, there will be no last-minute rescues in the movie, no suspense of death and silence, no imagined thousands of boats, tears rolling, and heads surging, but like a big dream, from death to life. Coming home alive, unbelievable.
As a director obsessed with solving the problem of time, Nolan played the countdown out of dream overlays and filmed interstellar travel into tears. Dunkirk is a World War II historical event that is also related to time. This incident has nothing to do with the exchange of fire between the two armies, but a shameless retreat and escape. The time was so short - the Germans were pressing behind, and four hundred thousand Anglo-French troops were surrounded.
But this film puts more emphasis on atmosphere, environment and psychological feelings. Flyers falling in the air, foam torn by waves, paralyzed by the thought that the escape was successful...
Once you decide to go with a parallel cut, Dunkirk's time junction is a very inconspicuous moment - like a boy who is suddenly punched and slapped on a boat, and you are completely unprepared: Huh? how could this be.
Many viewers may forget the subtitle information at the beginning of the opening, and then have the illusion of being unfinished and just so trance.
Some people say that "Dunkirk" is a suspense film, but its ending in history has long been written. The merits and demerits have long been concluded. In other words, no matter whether he is anti-war or producing a blockbuster, Nolan cannot give the audience more new and exciting ideas in terms of output and production. Once that's done, it's more of a risky challenge and rewrite.
What he wants to choose is to restore, to express an inaccessible moment of history. The Dunkirk Evacuation was very important to the European people and contributed to the history of World War II, but for the parties involved, although they were nervous and sweaty palms, it was just a day in their lives, and there was no bravery or bloodshed.
For Nolan, the Batman franchise was a dividing point in filmmaking. It is not difficult to find that, from the dazzling "Inception" to the "Interstellar" with interlaced multi-dimensional spaces, the emotional bonds connecting the protagonist and other characters are all family, home, husband and wife, and father and daughter.
Although "Dunkirk" did not describe the personal emotions of being able to go home too strongly, returning to the British mainland on the other side of the strait is equivalent to going home, and the strong psychological feeling of being back on the train - just like "Inception" "A copy of the copy.
Nolan is still that Nolan.
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What escaped was the battlefield. Home is everything.
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The biggest viewing challenge created by "Dunkirk" comes from the roaring feeling of its soundtrack. Due to Nolan's homage to classic silent films, the characters in the film are blurred and almost single-stroke simple line drawings. Hans Zimmer's muffled soundtrack, in my opinion, is more like a live soundtrack on top of the film, repeating indescribable hunger and exhaustion.
If you have seen the most pristine black and white silent film in the cinema of this year, you will definitely find it difficult to get used to the characters not being able to speak. Compared to being unable to speak, the film has no natural sound at all, and no soundtrack interlude is a more troublesome experience. That means that any movement or noise around you will be amplified to affect viewing (not to mention that black and white images will cause fatigue).
More than a hundred years ago, people were completely captured by the visual magic of movies, their eyeballs longed for a wonderful impact, and they were the first to be enlightened. Today, mobile phones and other media have developed people's sensory world to another situation.
Nolan is good at creating visual spectacles, a businessman, and a brain-burner, but he chose a conservative production strategy in "Dunkirk".
Three clues, with few signs of personal emotion.
Soldiers have to run for their lives, citizens have to save lives, and pilots have to shoot down enemy planes. Rather than carrying or fulfilling a historical mission, each person is driven by a personal mission deep within.
At least at this moment, no one knows where this war is going, let alone how this retreat changed the history of World War II.
Dunkirk could have had one subtitle card at the beginning and one at the end. The British and French forces were surrounded, and the British and French forces successfully retreated. But the movie is related to the times after all. "Dunkirk" appeared in Churchill's broadcast and appeared in newspaper announcements.
The end of the longest day in history.
And another exciting history is about to begin.
I understand Nolan's intentions this way:
People, whether saving people or killing enemies, they are part of the historical backdrop of World War II.
Without shaping or elevating their image brilliance, and without denying the thrilling and special nature of this history, it becomes a very different Dunkirk.
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