| spurgeonryan said:
@curl Perhaps you have never seen Saving Private Ryan or any other War movie ever made. This does not brilliantly capture anything. I would usually just so that we are just two totally different people. I like Devils third you do not. But you must know what happens in films like saving private Ryan or hacksawridge? There is no action and how can you care about any of these people? People liking this movie is more shocking than anything the movie had to offer. There is no experience and it is never emotional, even when ugly kid dies the characters show no emotion and the dad does not even say anything. I will just assume you watch few movies and leave it at that. |
I have seen dozens of war films including Saving Private Ryan. I own hundreds of movies.
There is plenty of action in Dunkirk; ships are attacked from both the air and submarines, planes dogfight, a squad is cut down by Geman gunfire within a minute of the film opening.
I can care about these people because there are portrayed as realistic human beings, ordinary people caught up in an insane scenario. There is plenty of emotion, the film simply doesn't spell it out with over-the-top heartstring tugging. There was no time for them to grieve George, they were in a life-threatening situation. Peter clearly is upset by it though; he doesn't need to say anything; acting is so much more than just saying lines, his facial expession, his eyes convey his frustration and grief.
I feel like you went into the film expecting a different kind of movie. This isn't a blockbuster action film, it's an minimalist, almost abstract study of how people are affected by war.
