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Goodnightmoon on 22 July 2017
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Volterra_90 said:
curl-6 said:

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.

Though I wasn't a big fan of war movies, so it'd be probably hard to please me, I think this was the best war movie I've seen. It was truly an interesting and different portrayal. I thought that it'd be more blockbuster-y, but it's definitely not. It's as minimalistic as a war movie can get. And the storytelling was pretty interesting. I feel like I might missed how all the three stories connect (specially the Cillian Murphy story), so I might have to watch it again to appreciate the film more. I felt a bit cold because I tend to enjoy Nolan films way more and, honestly, I didn't feel the emotional punch of the movie. I was brought to tears in Interstellar, for example, so you can clearly see the difference. And it felt a bit flat at the beginning. Also, I don't get the score at times. It was like... there is nothing happenning right now, and the score seemed to build up to a NOTHING moment XD. 

That happened for all the wrong reasons though, as Interestellar is great until the nonsense emotional crap comes in