Movie review: Dunkirk (2017)

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This article contains a spoiler.

I've never seen such a war movie. It's like Christopher Nolan style like ' The Dark Knight, ' ' Inception, ' and ' Interstellar. ' It is solemn, intellectual and meticulous. Even though I didn't see a drop of blood properly, I felt as if I were watching the most tense, cruel and solemn epic of any war movie.

It is said that since there are no notable characters, there are no bloody scenes, and that there is no exaggerated dramatic plot, the film is not popular. In other words, they will fail at the box office. It is a movie made with the knowledge of it, but it does not seem to matter much about performance report. However, he did not cast one of the main stars properly. The most expensive actor is Tom Hardy, who is also a Spitfire pilot, who wears a pilot's mask throughout the movie and finishes the movie without seeing his face.

If you ask what kind of dramatic conflict or catharsis a war movie can cause without a bloody war scene, the director seems to be saying it's just 'your way' from the start.

The movie is about people who never gave up hope in a cruel time when they had to give up everything. That was my question throughout the movie, ' Why on earth did they make this movie now? ' The question marks hanging in my head as I leave the lighted theater....

In the process of finding the answer, there will be a landmark of hope that the director of the film was pursuing. Personally, I am an optimist. I like people who struggle to find the ground for hope where there is no hope. A movie of brave people who never gave up living in a time when hope disappeared. I like this movie. I also like the fact that our time is a necessary value.

The director skillfully reconfigures his time on ' Beach ', ' Sea ' and ' Sky ' to record the breathtaking scenes on the battlefield. Forty thousand people believe that they can only survive, and that different periods of time in the ' sea ' and ' sky ' are being crossed on the axis of a week of cursed ' beach ' waiting for the boat to come. What's interesting is that the times at the beach and at the sea and at the sky are different. A week at the beach, a day at sea, and 50 minutes in the sky.

It feels as if it is running for a moment as if it sets the timer in advance and the second hand of the clock ticking away. There is only one goal. Rescue only forty people in despair! That's why I feel like putting this movie on the big screen of a war movie.

In order to rescue even one of the soldiers in crisis, civilians head for the French coast with their ships. Ordinary people who bravely rowed out to a place where they could not come back alive. They have only a day.

Major German warplanes are dropping bombs on Dunkirk's coast, where there is no place to hide due to the lack of trenches. Only 50 minutes are left for the British Air Force Spitfire pilots who have flown to stop this indiscriminate coastal bombing. Less than an hour of that short time intersects with a day at sea and a week at the beach.

It was as if a week of nameless soldiers on the coast had sailed across the Dover Strait to save their soldiers.
It's like a day of ordinary English people. So what do you do with Spitfire pilots?
Though the 50 minutes given are the shortest, it must have been a dramatic and heavy time. It is a glorious time only for those who sacrifice themselves.

I personally would like to say that it was Christopher Nolan's comeback to reconstruct the time of the beach, sea and sky. That puts the movie out of its ordinary war movie category. Hans Zimmer, who is in charge of the movie, always tries to make the audience sweat by mixing sound like a clock second ticking, just as if he understood the director's intention. Such tension is not strange because it has already been experienced in 'Dark knight' or 'Inception.' Life is always within the limitations of time, and at the same time it is the will of human beings to overcome the constraints of time.

Everyone's life has a crises. Both individuals and nations become more mature people through crises and trials, and Dunkirk is the story of those who have passed the worst time. So I couldn't help but ask myself, ' Am I doing my best now? Am I really looking at the landmark of hope during this difficult time? '

If you want to ask yourself what you want to be, I hope you enjoy this movie. Whether it was a setback, an ordeal, a hardship, a pain, a risk, and a retreat, the person who didn't give up eventually wins.

Churchill's words that evaluate the withdrawal project of dunkirk are so touching.

" To survive is to win! "