What is bravery, or courage, or heroism? What happens when, well, there's no hope in sight and you may find yourself on a beach off the North coast of France - where England is a good stone's throw away for the typical superhero - and... no one is coming to get you and the enemy (who, conveniently due to the director's bravura sense of spacial cinematic sense, you don't get to really see like in other war movies where the German is the easy target) is out to kill you many times over dead?
Christopher Nolan, that filmmaker who sometimes will try and walk up shyly to the mic and no one expects too much and somehow manages to BECOME THE MOST IMPORTANT FILMMAKER OF ALL TIME (borrowed that from a long dead IMDb message board post surely), now has his war film, the story of the desperate straits of the British as they, 400,000 in number, had no way of getting home as the Germans were advancing further in France. Fish in a barrel, you say? What happens when this is told THREE different timelines - one in a week, one in a day, and one in an hour? Who would try to pull that off?
Inception guy? Memento dude? Sure. What's this prankster got this time?
We saw Dunkirk. Should you? Listen and find out as Andrew and Jack take a look at the latest Nolan film starring Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branaugh, and a cast of thousands (intentionally, really, many look alike).
wagesofcinema@gmail.com
Song: Pink Floyd's "Bring the Boys Back Home" from THE WALL
