"What do you see?"
James D'Arcy's character is asking about the ships which have come to take them
'home', this word is frequently mentioned in Christopher Nolan's new film
'Dunkirk', which based on the battle of Dunkirk in 1940. The story of Dunkirk
is about British men were stuck on the beaches of Dunkirk while at war with
Germany.
We start the film with a group of men walking through streets getting water and taking used cigarettes, before getting shot at, we then follow Fionn Whitehead’s young Tommy as he runs away from the gunfire and runs towards a British Barricade, where they let him in once he explains that he's English as well. The battle of Dunkirk has been written about before even as early as 1942 where William Wyler made ‘Mrs Miniver and a lot of others have been made since.
We start the film with a group of men walking through streets getting water and taking used cigarettes, before getting shot at, we then follow Fionn Whitehead’s young Tommy as he runs away from the gunfire and runs towards a British Barricade, where they let him in once he explains that he's English as well. The battle of Dunkirk has been written about before even as early as 1942 where William Wyler made ‘Mrs Miniver and a lot of others have been made since.
Throughout the entire film
we switch between three different stories ‘The Mole’, which is about the beach
of Dunkirk ‘The Sea’ which is about three men helping a stranded shell-shocked
Cillian Muphy and lastly ‘The Air’ which follows Tom Hardy’s character in a
spitfire as he battles with the enemies Luftwaffe. These three stories play out
over different time periods which is, one week, one day, one hour respectfully,
also over the course of the film we see that the stories interlace.
Throughout the whole film
there is very minimal dialogue, like many famous silent films, for example, Guy
Hamilton’s ‘The Battle for Britain’ (1969). Except with this film the dialogue
is important and there isn’t any unnecessary dialogue. But the minimal dialogue
is made up for by the amazing dogfight where it puts the audience in the
cockpit with the characters. Throughout the film we have Hans Zimmer’s music
playing in the background to add tension and expectation to the film.
There were some parts of the
film which I found had some bad notes, for example, I found that it was too
confusing to follow the different stories lines, because it wasn’t really clear
as to when they were happening, except at the start when it tells us. However I
couldn’t remember that for the entire duration of the film but it was near the
middle of the film I found it clear as to what was happening, but at the start
I didn’t know what the words at the start was referring to until near the
middle of the film, but by then I had already forgot what they were.
