The tenth film by Christopher Nolan tells about the true story that took place during the Second World War in 1940 about the evacuation of Allied soldiers in one of the fiercest epics that took place during this war, where about 198,000 British soldiers and 140,000 soldiers were evacuated from France, Belgium, Canada Poland and the Netherlands. The film was met with various criticisms, as in addition to the problem of racism, there is the problem of the difficulty of understanding the events of the story and distinguishing between its axes.
What makes the Dunkirk movie a bit difficult to understand despite the fact that the story is generally considered a normal event is the way the script is written, as there are three points of view from which the events of the film are narrated, and not that each one is narrated until it ends and then the other follows it in succession or succession, but every time The director takes us to a certain point of view, then takes us back to another point of view, then takes us to the other and so on ... until this historical fact has become very complex and difficult to understand easily. Therefore, we will try to deconstruct and simplify events to make them easier to digest and to understand them well.
First view, at The Mole - one week
This view is narrated through the soldiers trapped in the harbor at Dunkirk Beach, and it lasts for one week.
Second view, at the sea - one day
This view narrates its events from the sea, especially in the boat of Mr. "Dawson" with his son "Peter" and the other boy "George", and it lasts for one day.
Third view, in the air - one hour
This view is narrated from the air, especially with the pilots "Farrier" starring Tom Hardy and the pilot "Collins" starring Jack Luden, and it lasts one hour.
So how do each of the three perspectives meet in the film?
The first thing to understand is that the three destinations did not start at the same time, but ended at the same time. In other words, the first view that occurs in the harbor The Mole is the one that started first and lasted for seven days, then followed by the second view that takes place in the sea and lasted one day as it did not occur until the last day or the seventh day from the first point of view, then we reach To the third view, which occurs in the air, The Air, which lasted one hour, as it did not occur until the last hour from the first point of view and the second point of view, and thus the three destinations met at the same time at the end of the film, but as we said, it did not start at the same time.
In order for the picture to become clearer, we will repeat the explanation briefly. Viewpoint 3 did not start until the last hour from Point of View 2 and 1, and View 2 did not start until the last day from Point of View 1. Note carefully this graphic image below which was designed by someone and published on Reddit, it will help you further understand when the three destinations started and how they ended:
But we are not done yet, there is also some mystery about an important scene in the movie that has to do with the above. You remember when the second plane piloted by pilot "Collins" was hit, and when he landed in it over the water, the first bird Farrier (Tom Hardy) was yelling at him in the caller The radio, but "Collins" does not answer, then after that the director gives us an aerial shot showing a boat coming from afar towards the plane that landed above the water, then after that pilot Farrier (Tom Hardy) wave to him with his hand!
But why did he wave his hand? Does that mean that he is saying goodbye to him, or that the other pilot who landed in the water was the one who waved his hand first and then "Farrier" responded by waving as well? No, it is not, what is in the matter is that we see this scene from the third point of view, from the air, but when we see it again from the second view, from the sea, it will be completely different.
Events accelerate forward with excitement until we reach this scene from the second point of view, from the sea, where we will see a Collins plane being hit and the pilot is forced to land on it over the water, and then we see from inside Mr. Dawson's boat that they are heading towards it, then we move on to Inside the pilot's cabin, we discover that he was stuck inside and could not open the upper cover to exit, as he raised his hand to open it, and here exactly the first pilot, "Farrier", from the air's point of view, thought that he was waving to him with his hand, but in reality he was only trying to open the top cover of the plane.
I have noticed well where the complexity lies in the story of the film, as there are some scenes that we see twice, each time from a certain point of view, and if you can understand this concept that the film's script is based on, you will discover that the story is simpler than it is, and here lies the magnificence of this concept The one of his kind that director Christopher Nolan pursued, and without a doubt he will award him a nomination next year at the Oscars, either in the list of best directing or best screenplay.
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However, although this concept is unique and perhaps I think we have never seen anything like it in any movie before, many critics considered it a kind of repetition. You watch a certain scene and then you see it again from another point of view, but despite that it remains Very interesting. As for a final word about the film's right, without a doubt it is not considered the best film by director Christopher Nolan, many of his other works greatly surpass him, such as Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Inception ...
Dunkirk is directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Harry Styles, and Cillian Murphy.