It emerged from Christopher Nolan's brilliant Interstellar that any human adventure carries with it its failure and that success is not much. I remember the first part of the film, the feeling of rout and uncertainty surrounding the project to join a new world as the earth died under ecological disasters. Hope took time to emerge. It is a feeling close enough that captures the viewer of Dunkirk, so used to great shows that go almost without a hitch. The film tells a terrible episode of the beginning of the Second World War: the encirclement by the Reich army of the French and British armies in the "pocket" of Dunkirk, 400,000 men trapped waiting on the beach and in the city, and the miraculous evacuation of three quarters of them thanks to the help of boats coming from England. It is probably thanks to this evacuation that Britain was able to continue the war and contribute to the defeat of Germany. It is therefore a very important moment of conflict. Christopher Nolan, who wrote the script, makes us immediately feel the rout of the British troops. Some explanatory cartons disappear abruptly on an English patrol trying to reach the beach under fire. Excepting to present and develop his characters, Nolan chooses a collective story about survival, filmed to the height of soldier.
The great strength of the film, but it will be seen that it is also a weakness, is to privilege the efficiency and the tension of the event, to make us wade like English soldiers in an unheroic rout, to ultimately make us to see a little hope. It is the famous character "immersive", become a pledge of quality, and that Nolan knows very well give to his story. We really believe ourselves in the middle of the defeat that the scenario tells us thoroughly. There is this montage broken up into different temporalities, which distributes in a balanced way the points of view of the British combatants, on earth (the jetty), on the sea, in the ships that try to leave the city or in the boats that bring relief to the troops, and in the air where a duel is played between English (RAF) and German (Lutfwaffe) aviations. This nervous and oppressive montage allows us to show these small, modest, sometimes successful, especially failed actions that make Dunkirk a unique episode of its kind. A bitter defeat that is gradually turning into a tiny success that will create hope for the rest of the war. There is also this strident and agonizing soundtrack of Hans Zimmer that perfectly illustrates the stress of the encircled and fleeing soldiers. The sound atmosphere is combined with shock images, worthy of disaster movies: the destruction of a destroyer for example. We are in a big show that knows how to create multiple suspense around confinement, like that of this aviator who tries to get out of his cockpit while his plane sinks. which make Dunkirk a unique episode of its kind. A bitter defeat that is gradually turning into a tiny success that will create hope for the rest of the war. There is also this strident and agonizing soundtrack of Hans Zimmer that perfectly illustrates the stress of the encircled and fleeing soldiers.
In Dunkirk, we have the impression of seeing pieces moved from one disaster to another. We will not know anything about Tommy (Fion Whitehead) or not much of Gibson (Aneurin Barnard) and all the men who suffered the event. Nolan takes a little more time to embark with Mr. Dawson (Mark Rylance), a veteran crossing with his son Channel with his boat to retrieve soldiers. But these characters especially allow to exalt the heroism and the sacrifice of the British people. Nevertheless, an almost Eastwoodian point of view on the war timidly takes shape with them: its injustice as it annihilates the youngest, it makes the survivors crazy, but it also underlines the disinterestedness and the sacrifice it helps to bring about. So we contemplate a great story free movie downloads epic and collective but ultimately a little chilling.
