Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan
Cast: Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles
August 7th to 9th for Warner 100
Another Nolan awaits Oppenheimer. The model, it would seem, is a military movie of the sixties, the genre The longest day: episodes to complete the puzzle, each episode is a star, in chronological order.
It would seem that. Dunkirk, starting with the name, comes out of the template: Dunkirk is the English name for Dunkirk, the French city on the border with Belgium, where in 1940 the British army and part of the French army on the way, surrounded, on the beach before the English Channel, were waiting for destruction or capture . 400,000 soldiers were rescued mostly by civilians who left in fishing boats, yachts and pilot boats from English ports. Dunkirk is a film about English pride in defeat turned into victory, it is the story of a toy soldier trying to get on board even by deceit, a man and two boys, civilians, who went to the rescue from England, a pilot who flies a Spitfire, until he runs out of gas, a desperate soldier who can’t take it anymore, and another 400,000 people who wait on the beach with a fleet commander who organizes an impossible rescue. They are all afraid. There are no heroes around. Dunkirk it’s not in chronological order: dark and light alternate, and after an initial moment of bewilderment, you realize that Nolan is telling a story, moving back and forth without explanation. Dunkirk he is almost silent, his strength is all in 70mm film shots (like the colossi of the past) and the special effects are so special that they are not visible, but they are: so Dunkirk it looks like a World War II documentary in a wet, blurry light, and all the actors, even the very famous ones, are dressed, made up, and combed like nameless war documentary extras. Dunkirk this is a special effect: a time machine, it takes you “to the place” where the fog of war does not allow for historical analysis. Speed of rhetoric? Listen to the elderly civilian who welcomes the return of the soldier and complains that he is just a survivor…