Among my avocational interests is World War II military history. We were buying groceries this afternoon when, at the cash register, the market was selling the film Dunkirk on DVD and BR.
We bought one and watched it tonight. Here’s my reaction to this historically based story.
The aim of the film makers was to allow the audience to experience the Dunkirk evacuation from three perspectives. The film is not a history of Dunkirk, but a set of three interacting personal stories set during the evacuation.
Without overdoing spoilers, the film follows a flight of three Spitfire pilots, a couple of foot soldiers leaving the beach for the water, and a motor yacht owner and his son headed to the evacuation.
Interestingly, there is no pre-action build-up, the scene opens with the beginnings of the evacuation, and the whole film doesn’t cover much elapsed time. Is it fun? No. Is it good? Yes; it is grim, unheroic for the most part, and feels real.
Laughably, SJWs have complained that that nearly all the film’s actors were white males, blithely ignoring that Dunkirk’s participants actually were overwhelmingly just that: white males.
