Dunkirk - Film

[Michael73]

i remember a historian once saying something along the lines- movies become the collective memory for an historical event. (so for example, when people think of D-Day they think of saving private ryan, etc)

Very true!

[Jean-Loup]

I hope it wont show a spitfire shoot down 5 enemy aircraft in a single mission, including one after the spit´s motor had stalled for lack of fuel

[bodes]

I hope it wont show a spitfire shoot down 5 enemy aircraft in a single mission, including one after the spit´s motor had stalled for lack of fuel

Being that British fighters had carbeurated engines, they would tend to spit and sputter while in deep dives......Messerscmitts on the other hand had fuel injected ones, so yeah let's hope they keep that aspect true to life.....Bodes

[Totenhead]

I hope it wont show a spitfire shoot down 5 enemy aircraft in a single mission, including one after the spit´s motor had stalled for lack of fuel

Perhaps it will show a Boulton Paul Defiant doing just that

To be precise:

Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Gresham Cooke, DFC, No. 264 Squadron RAF

KIA Dunkirk

29th May 1940, Dunkirk

2 x Messerschmitt Bf 109
1 x Messerschmitt Bf 110

Later that eveving

5 x Junkers Ju 87

[Arthur Kullmer]

Perhaps it will show a Boulton Paul Defiant doing just that

To be precise:

Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Gresham Cooke, DFC, No. 264 Squadron RAF

KIA Dunkirk

29th May 1940, Dunkirk

2 x Messerschmitt Bf 109
1 x Messerschmitt Bf 110

Later that eveving

5 x Junkers Ju 87

Love it an Ace! & hero's

[Nische]

Just saw it tonight, 70mm IMAX, and all I can say is ... incredible. The sounds, images, plot, acting, cinematography, all of it, fantastic.

Looking forward to reading other comments; specifically, the technical details / accuracy of the film.

[Killerbee]

Well there will be alot of women that are dying to see this movie... for only one reason... a Mr. Harry Styles... YEP... my daughter, all her girlfriends, etc. etc. etc. can't wait to see it. 18-25 year old women all over America... and guys. Most already have bought their tickets... lol. Sooo... it is hilarious... no interest in the movie just him. Good news is that they will hopefully learn history at the same time. lol.

[Bern]

Perhaps it will show a Boulton Paul Defiant doing just that

To be precise:

Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Gresham Cooke, DFC, No. 264 Squadron RAF

KIA Dunkirk

29th May 1940, Dunkirk

2 x Messerschmitt Bf 109
1 x Messerschmitt Bf 110

Later that eveving

5 x Junkers Ju 87

You forgot to mention Lieutenant Cooke's gunner, Acting Corporal Albert Lippett DFM.
Also KIA, Dunkirk

Regards

Bern

[Totenhead]

You forgot to mention Lieutenant Cooke's gunner, Acting Corporal Albert Lippett DFM.
Also KIA, Dunkirk

Regards

Bern

Indeed

[Tim O'Keefe]

Does it follow the Dunkirk film from 1958 storyline at all ? That is one great movie for its time.
Look forwards to seeing the modern version.

[Bob Lyons]

A review of the movie in our local newspaper ......


Dunkirk is not just a masterpiece, but one of the greatest war movies of all time
Leigh Paatsch, National Film Critic, News Corp Australia Network
July 20, 2017 2:40pm
DUNKIRK (M)
Rating: five stars (5 out of 5)
Director: Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Harry Styles, Kenneth Branagh.
The epic weight of an unbearable wait
IT ONLY takes a matter of minutes for Dunkirk to convey the unmistakeable notion you are in the presence of true cinematic greatness.
This is what a masterpiece looks like. Sounds like. Feels like.
Not only is Dunkirk one of the finest movies to happen along in the 21st century so far. It is one of the greatest war movies of all-time, period.
Acclaimed director Christopher Nolan has crafted a complete vision here. A vision that not only captures the sweeping historical significance of the subject at hand, but also its intimate human essence.
It is late May 1940 in the small French coastal town of Dunkirk. An estimated 400,000 Allied troops, most of them British, have been penned in by the Germans on a swath of beach marked only by a solitary pier.
The waters lapping the shoreline — which sits barely 40km from the comparative safe haven of England — are too shallow to effect a traditional rescue by Navy vessels.
All who stand shivering on those windswept sands are sitting ducks for sustained bombing attacks from overhead by Nazi fighter planes.
If this unprecedented mass evacuation is to be successful to any worthwhile degree, it will take a miracle. This film is the chronicle of that miracle.
Had it never come to pass, there is every likelihood World War II would have ended with a very different result. And even now, we would be living in a very different world.
Make no mistake. This is a gargantuan undertaking for any filmmaker looking to do justice to what transpired at Dunkirk. So it is downright astonishing to witness the immense storytelling risks that Nolan as writer and director takes with this material.
There are no backstories in play. No on-the-spot exposition in the dialogue. No space is allowed for convenient cliches or any other narrative shortcuts.
Instead, Nolan audaciously divides the story among three competing time frames of radically differing lengths.
Across the space of a week, we will follow a young British soldier named Tommy (Fionn Whitehead) as he moves from one hotspot to another up and down the Dunkirk beach.
His is a marathon bid to get away from this hell on earth by any means necessary.
Across the space of a day, we will remain aboard the Moonstone, a small wooden yacht that forms part of a British civilian armada on its way to retrieve as many soldiers as humanly possible.
Academy Award-winning actor Mark Rylance is a member of the standout ensemble from Dunkirk. Picture: Supplied
The Moonstone is piloted by Mr Dawson (Mark Rylance), a stoic, humble patriot who has already lost one son in the war, and has brought along a teenage two-man crew to help him on his noble mission.
Finally, across the space of one hour, we are cooped up in the cockpit of an RAF Spitfire with a masked pilot named Farrier (Tom Hardy).
With fuel supplies dwindling and fellow wingmen falling all around him, Farrier stays locked in battle with the Luftwaffe bombers to bring some measure of protection and respite to his countrymen below.
The sophisticated manner in which these three time frames not only overlap each other, but also underscore the overall magnitude of the Dunkirk retreat casts a transfixing spell.
Unusually for a war picture, Nolan holds back from unleashing a visceral onslaught of battlefield forensics at any point. The full horror of war is forcefully implied, but rarely directly depicted here.
Nevertheless, the powerful reactions that Dunkirk elicits from the viewer are studiously accumulated and honourably earned.
In addition to the uniformly fine performances of the Dunkirk acting ensemble, a pivotal role in the movie is given to its highly emotive sound design.
A pulsing music score is fused with a naturalistic sound mix to achieve an effect that is positively symphonic in both scale and impact.
The fear, the despair, the confusion and the minute threads of hope to which each man on that beach is clinging comes through with a clarity and force that is relentless.
The same state of mind shared by those 400,000 souls on Dunkirk beach becomes a similar preoccupation of anyone immersed in this extraordinary viewing experience: before you can live to fight another day, you must first fight to live another day.

[australia]

Seen it today , great camerawork , scenes, music/ sound effects were pretty good , make sure to see it in IMAX / Vmax / largest cinema screen you can find .

8 / 10

[Jean-Loup]

I thought is was resonably good. Here are my negative comments:

-the beach seemed much to orderly (men mostly fully equiped, all standing, little discarded material lying about), and the scale of the evacuation is not properly rendered.
-the LW aircraft were in numbers of three max if I remember, which does not correspond to the reality of the time. It would have been nice to see a full formation of stuckas, ME, etc, coming in.
-the final Spitfire scene once he is out of gas is completely lacking in realism, as well as being rather useless.

[Kelly w]

My next France trip will include the Dunkirk beaches etc. IS there any monuments museums there? You Europe folk are lucky.

[Jeff V]

Incredible visual and sound effects.
The script IMO was very poor along with the editing. Overall a disappointment. Disjointed all around with very little clarity in the characters and story.