If Terrence Malick had made "Thin Red Line" with a point it would be this movie. Straight forward and wholly immersive I intend to re-watch on the format it was shot on, which is 15perf 70mm IMAX.
The story is of a pitch battle on a retreat. The English And French are stuck waiting for Winston Churchill to get off his fat drunk ass and bail them. Instead, they are stranded. All 400,000. As they wait as targets for German planes...they are desperate to survive.
Here's the last time I'll bring it up about Senor Spielber-go:
"Saving Private Ryan" was a movie I walked out just in awe of the technical. In the end...its unwatchable now because of dumb speeches and manipulative Hollywood drivel. Here, you dont know names and you dont know backstories. You know you have to survive. Which has no time for men talking about the tail they're gonna get if they survive. They're looking for every avenue to escape.
Such a battle isn't a battle at all but a "live to fight another day" scenario.
Director Christopher Nolan crafts simple human moments based on horrific war events and slowly it becomes a sensory film.
This is also told through the bending of time. Events catch up with past and then hangs back into present but ends up getting a different perspective. Disorienting but as your mind catches up...it engages you wholly.
While the movie is as straight forward as possible, you get a sense that this story the Brits tell is a proud story. And not that I'm spoiling it, but when desperation calls out for all good people to pitch in, very often people will answer it.
Is it a thrilling Hollywood pic. NO. But it is what I think real war feels like. And it's usually situations you're just happy to walk away from. So please go experience this movie. Not watch...experience.
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