I always feel that war movies give people too much passion, which dilutes the horror of war itself. Dunkirk, on the other hand, has a very simple narrative and minimal use of camera lenses, but it can make me feel the psychological oppression caused by the war. a feeling of. Every time you dodge an air strike, you are fighting against the odds with your life. After this level, there are countless levels before you. One second, you sighed in relief and started eating, and the next second, a torpedo came.
From the very beginning of the film, a group of British soldiers flee from the guns of the German army, falling one by one, no slow motion, no shouting, just pure demise, very peaceful, but real and cruel. Then on the beach, on the boat that you finally got on, death is the probability of hitting your head, and sometimes you can do something, swim hard, or find an unused merchant ship. But most of the time, misfortune is just a momentary thing, and God deprives you of the opportunity to work hard
The battlefield is like this, no matter how much hatred you have in your chest, how much enthusiasm to defend your country, how many slogans you want to shout, the most real emotion there is fear. Because there is a high probability that you are not the hero who has made great military achievements and killed countless enemies, but is just an ordinary soldier who will be hit by stray bullets accidentally. The battlefield wipes out all your other characters, and you are reduced to a murderous tool when faced with a choice between life and death. Your dreams, your family, all your happy memories, your hesitation or firmness every time you make a decision, your longing or worry about the future, will all be disintegrated by a bullet in an instant, just like you never lived .
Many people criticized the film for not having a big scene, like the retreat of thousands of people, but what is the use of a big scene? We have seen enough scenes where countless people charge together. Ordinary people are still tools forced to sacrifice their lives for the so-called "greater good", still mere points, and then become a survival or casualty data, and then become a high-sounding "importance" in the history books. It is conceivable that if a domestic director makes this film, the probability is: how the big man makes decisions, how to encourage the people to save people, how the soldiers help each other, the busy boarding scene on the beach, and finally add a paragraph "After xx and xx" With unremitting efforts, a total of 330,000 people were evacuated in 9 days, preserving valuable living strength for the World Anti-Fascist War." The big scene gives the audience the perspective of God, but it is difficult to empathize. There are so many stories revolving around heroic characters, so many that we even fantasize that we are one in 10,000 lucky, so we are impassioned, although we will be killed, but Dunkirk is the fate of ordinary people. , What awaits you is not the vertical and horizontal, but the probability-like death, and the endless fear and despair.
If I went through the war, if I survived, I would probably have PTSD. And throughout history, war is the main theme, which is really depressing.
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