Review of Dunkirk (2017) by Immanuel C — 07 Sep 2017

This is Christopher Nolan's masterpiece, and the best movie of 2017 that I've seen so far. This is not your typical war movie. Typical war movies are about character growth through hardship. Dunkirk has very little dialogue and is not about character growth (in fact, I don't remember hearing some of the characters' names in the movie) because Nolan immerses the audience into the experience of the Dunkirk evacuation, which was hurried and intense and thus likely allowed very little for conversations among the soldiers.

This lack of focus on character growth in the movie is what makes Dunkirk unique and it opens up avenues for other thematic explorations, such as themes surrounding national unity. Like any Christopher Nolan film, the cast and the score by Hans Zimmer are spectacular.

I'm not sure Dunkirk is the best war film ever made, but it's sure damn great and unique. I hope to see Dunkirk join the likes of other war movies such as The Deer Hunter, Patton, and Platoon at the Academy Awards! If not, it'll definitely be in the class of Doctor Zhivago, Apocalypse Now, and Saving Private Ryan.

I'll be buying the DVD as well as the soundtrack-take all my money (okay, maybe not all of it)!