Intensely dramatic and spectacular war film Dunkirk

Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy With Dunkirk, director World War, this film chroni(Aneurin Bannard) as they (Mark Rylance) as they head pride in letting them scamChristopher Nolan plunges cles the evacuation of British try to stow away on the to France, to pick up as many per anonymously across you directly into an impassoldiers who were cornered evacuation ships leaving the troops as possible before the the screen, allowing them to sive war zone. on the beaches of Dunkirk beaches. Nazis get to them. Accompamingle in the crowd or merge

Mounted on an epic scale (Dunkerque) in France, in The narrative begins with nying Mr. Dawson is his son with smoke or water. and presented in a pragmatlate May to early June 1940 Tommy collecting a flutterPeter (Tom Glynn-Carney) Thus after a while, when ic manner, the film is wellafter the Germans had ing propaganda flier meant and Peter’s friend George the stories mesh, it becomes made. It is a survival film driven nearly four hundred to remind the Allied forces ( Barry Keoghan). During tricky to tell who is who with which is dramatic yet natuthousand men of the Allied about how the enemy has their journey to Dunkrik the troops on the beach and ral and it elicits an emotional forces, British and French surrounded them and esthey pick up a shell-shocked in some of the Royal Navy response from its audience. soldiers, to the edge. cape is impossible. The initial survivor (Cillian Murphy) vessels because they all look

The treatment of the film The narration comprises burst of violence is visceral who suffers from a PTSD and sound so similar. is supposed to have been three stories; “The Mole” and unnerving. (Post Trauma Stress DisorAlso, the film deviates from inspired from 11 films— All which is set over the course Then, when Tommy reachder). the normal war-film techQuiet on the Western Front, The of about a week, “The Sea” es the beach, he sees Alex “The Air” marks two Royal niques which usually instil Wages of Fear, Alien, Speed, set over a day and “The Air” burying a dead soldier in the Airforce Pilots Farrier (Tom some level of hope and comUnstoppable, Greed, Sunrise, set over a period of one hour. sand, this reiterates his fate, Hardy) and Collins ( Jack radery and instead chooses Ryan’s Daughter, The Battle of These three distinct stories if he still lingers on the shore. Lowden) as they try to proto focus on just the mere Algiers, Chariots of Fire and intercut throughout the film So, all Tommy desires is to go tect the water front. survival of these individuals. Foreign Correspondent and giving it a holistic approach back to his home, away from Told from three perspecThere is no deep explicit conyet the film presented like a to the film. the deafening noise and the tives—Land, Sea and Air, nection with the individual montage, vaguely reminds “The Mole” follows three frightening atmosphere. the ensemble film does not characters except that you you of the classic Russian young soldiers Tommy “The Sea” trails a civilian delineate most of its charwish for them not to die. This film Battleship Potemkin. ( Fionn Whitehead), Alex yacht called The Moonacters through exposition is possibly the weakest point

Set during the Second (Harry Styles) and Gibson stone piloted by Mr. Dawson but seems to take awkward of the film.

The film is paced and structured carefully to emit the desired emotion with a nonlinear plot and it lets you on a path with its carefully lined up imagery. The visuals are absolutely spectacular. Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytemaa’s frames are brutal as he captures the strewn bodies, ballistic bombardments and raw emotions adroitly. Also, some symbolic metaphors are aesthetically mounted.

The sound design i s clever as the ticking sound throughout keeps you on tenterhooks and builds the suspense.

Overall, with the enemy not shown, Dunkirk is a cleverly made film that’s worth watching in an IMAX or on a 70mm Projection. IANS