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You remember Henry the 5th? There's that scoundrel character, Pistol, who has a soliloquy: Of a malady of France, And there my rendezvous is quite cut off. Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs Honor is cudgeled. Well, bawd I’ll turn, And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand. To England will I steal, and there I’ll steal. And patches will I get unto these cudgeled scars, And swear I got them in the Gallia wars. And then he deserts and goes back to England. I cannot fathom why Christopher Nolan decided to make a movie about a small group of guys like Pistol. The fact that these guys have apparently abandoned their units and aren't reporting to any CO's mean they are effectively deserters. The amazing thing about Dunkirk was that it must have actually been a pretty orderly evacuation with the rank and file maintaining some level of discipline. I have no idea why Nolan decided to focus the movie on a group of undisciplined assholes who tried to cut in line and/or murder each other to get on a boat out of there. I'm also not sure if the cutesy nonlinear narrative really added anything to the story, other than potential for confusion and a murky sense of distance and time. What it did to was take time away from character dialogue that could have potentially injected a little more humanity and interest into the movie.
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Pander posted:The main character's entire unit went down, he was barely past teenage years, and he had some form of ptsd. He just wanted to live, didn't care about winning the war or good order and discipline and stiff upper lip and all that poo poo. His friend is a French man of uncertain background. The only verified lovely deserters are the guys in the boat, and who knows their story. I've never been in war so I don't know jack, but I've read a pretty decent amount on WW2. Shell shocked/PTSD soldiers don't actively conspire and avoid the chain of command. Our main characters, rather than try to find a commanding officer and be told where to report to, took the initiative and attempted to fraudulently self-evacuate by impersonating stretcher bearers, and then dunking themselves in the water to make like they were survivors from the sunken hospital ship. PTSD/shell shocked guys would have just gone catatonic and sat down on the beach. These guys actively conspired and willfully avoided the chain of command, thus the only real indication of their humanity we have to go on is that they are selfish scoundrels. I'm saying the true story of Dunkirk must have been the incredible general adhesion to discipline. 300,000 people don't get off a beach in nine days without a pretty good level of discipline and organization. But with Nolan's portrayal you might come away with thinking it was a kill-or-be-killed madhouse.
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Aug 6, 2017 16:43
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