Forgot when in 16 years I heard that Nolan had such a "Dunkirk" to be released.
In my knowledge, this location is closely related to a strategic retreat in the early days of World War II, which was a grand historical event, and in my knowledge, Nolan is a director who is good at starting from personal roles, as far as I am concerned. In the few movies I have seen, there are not many characters and the layout is not big, but they can see the small and see the big. This is his greatness, but can he really grasp such a macro historical theme?
Before I finished watching it, I found out that this is still a movie with a strong personal style. Different from the inertial thinking from historical characters, Nolan once again created virtual characters that "do not exist but are real and perceptible", and tried to connect different characters through multi-line narrative and parallel editing. It's a pity that he didn't have enough skill, which caused the plot to be very scattered and the narrative chaotic. For example, did "Scarecrow" ride on the same boat as the surviving little handsome guy at the beginning? After the first capsize, the handsome boy and a certain highland infantry swam to a boat full of people, and the French hid on it silently, and the leader of the boat seemed to be the "Scarecrow". And then there's the picture of the handsome guy, the Frenchman and the Highlander drifting towards the beach. For another example, did the "Bain Soup" chasing the bomber take place over civilian ships? He was about to parachute and make a forced landing after the second air battle. Why did he fly so far again? Instead, another plane that was in good condition made an inexplicable emergency landing into the sea. In the first air battle, the captains of the three also crashed and died silently. Was it meant to say "deaths in war are not surprising" or am I too sleepy to watch?
Of course, Nolan still captured the essence of Western war films. The whole film (especially the opening) basically doesn't have a few lines. Although it is a battlefield, it is very quiet, because at this moment, silence is better than sound, and everything is silent. Sure enough, the sound of guns that sounded in the next second immediately took me away Back to Bloody Hacksaw Ridge. In high-intensity wars, people have only two states, either silent or mad. Only those who grew up under the influence of divine dramas will shout "Even if you are far away, you will be punished" and "I'm Chinese!"
The handsome guy and the French went to great lengths to send the wounded soldiers onto the boat, but they were sunk on the beach before they set sail. Go to the beach; find the boat that the Dutch had stranded, but it was the Germans who set up an ambush, and the French died there. Before the end of the film, they boarded the boat and left again and again, and returned to Dunkirk again and again. The torment of the war on people is in this kind of back and forth. There is a soldier in the film who takes off his clothes and steps into the waves. He may be planning to swim back to England, or he may simply kill himself, either way out of desperation.
When it came to the end, I suddenly found out that maybe the British army officers and soldiers are strictly graded, the boundaries are clear, and clothing, food, housing, and transportation must be separated, but the officers were the last to withdraw from the battlefield. The phrase "let the leader go first" can be said to be milky...
Finally, we strongly oppose the shameless act of translating "home" into "motherland" with the tinted glasses of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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