Dunkirk review




        Today's blog post is going to be a little different to what I usually post. Last weekend, a friend and I decided to go see Dunkirk, and it was amazing! It really was a beautiful experience. As you'll have noticed, I'm an history geek (I did my Master's degree on women in Modern History) and I'm especially interested by the social and psychology aspects of the people/soldiers during World War II.



       Christopher Nolan's movie is based on a true story, Operation Dynamo. It portrays the evacuation of British soldiers from Dunkirk beaches and harbour back to England. Surrounded by German troops, Allied troops are trapped in Dunkirk which is why British command is looking for a way to go back to England. Prime Minister Winston Churchill admitted in a speech in front of the House of Commons that the events in France were "a colossal military disaster". As German U-boot and aviation torpedoed many of the rescue boats, British soldiers were finally evacuated during a period of eight days. The majority of the troops were able to embark from the Harbour protective mole onto British destroyer but some of them had to be ferried from the beaches to larger ships by what came to be known as the "little ships of Dunkirk". Hundreds of merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft, yachts and lifeboats are called into service from Britain for the emergency rescue mission.

        Nolan's movie depicts this rescue mission by telling the story from three different perspectives covering different periods of time: one week on land, one day on sea and one hour in the air. The music, written by Hans Zimmer, is as usual a master piece and support the film beautifully especially because there's not much dialogue. It's mostly based on close-ups which allow you to see the internal struggles that soldiers experience during a war. Every one in the cast did an incredible job depicting all the emotions that soldiers can go through during that kind of horrible moments. You feel like you're in it with them, with all the moral questions that war pushes on you, like letting one of your friends die for you to stay alive or wether to keep fighting or not for the freedom of a country that isn't yours. If you think you're going to see a war movie with big explosions, artillery, confrontations and fights, this movie might not be for you but otherwise, even though you're not into or know much about WWII history, it's a beautiful film.

      I'd like to hear your opinions on Dunkirk if you've seen the movie too!

                                                                                                          Thanks for reading,
                                                                                                                                   Candice

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