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I didn't see much of the publicity for this so this is pretty much my own fault, but I was definitely expecting a different sort of movie, i.e. one about the entire battle as a whole with probably a bunch of speeches and a precise account of what exactly went on everywhere. (And was about to skip it for pretty much that reason until I heard some reviews that sounded like it was actually good.) So when I watched it I got the same feeling as a bunch of other people that it looked like the whole event consisted of two ships and three planes and about a thousand or so men, but yeah like I think others have also said thinking about it after I guess that was kind of the point? It wasn't about the battle but about the experience of being a person somewhere within it. You're in the middle of the channel, how many ships are there in any direction? No idea. You're in the sky, how many planes are there in the miles around you? No idea. You're some guy on a beach, how long down the beach do these endless lines of soldiers actually go on for? How many are elsewhere? Where are those people shooting at you? How many planes are there nearby waiting to bomb you? How far from shore even is this boat you're hiding in the lower deck of? Not a clue. You manage to hide under a pier for narrative convenience and overhear someone saying there are however many hundreds of thousands of men, but what does that mean to you? Can you even imagine that number? Wherever you are, there's just the place you're in and whatever you can see or hear when you're there, you're not going to get any swooping shots of the surroundings to figure out what the hell's going on or whether there's twenty planes over the horizon about to murder you. I can't tell whether it was a Great Movie or whatever but it seemed to do what it tried to do at least. I do agree about the week not feeling at all like a week, even despite knowing going in that it was. And when the boats get to Dunkirk the "what's that?" "HOPE" bit seemed like a line from the type of movie I had been expecting that had snuck in without realising what movie it was actually in. Like I guess you could call that a deliberate subversion or something in that it was so out of place but it didn't land that way for me at least. Also in the screening I went to, just before the actual movie there was an actual tie-in advert for, of all things, a battleship simulator game, which uh seemed a little out of place. Like, there are many mindsets that film put me in but I don't think one of them was excitement and interest in the fact we live in a world where there exist boats that can shoot other boats and drown people and/or an eagerness to simulate said drownings myself. But then I'm a pinko peacenik so maybe the more bloodthirsty viewers would be more in the mood.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Tommy never did get to take a dump the whole film. I mean I'm against wild fan theories that go outside the text and all but I have to admit in my own personal headcanon the guy probably did do a poo at some point during the week
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