Dunkirk Review

Nolan is a Genius. The moment he makes a movie of a genre... So many similar ones follow... Like superhero movies changed after him, rival stories came after prestige, time stories came after inception (which he treated as a heist movie than anything else). Similar for Interstellar which he treated as a father daughter story than a space exploration. Dunkirk is a VERY different war movie from any other. There's no flash back to good times. No strategizing by people at top, no blood, nothing. The emotion is brought in just by showing you what is really going on and can be seen with eyes without dramatizing. He treated it more as a suspense and survival movie than a war movie, justifying all the accolades and praise.

hen I had first heard about the storyline of Dunkirk, to be honest, I was a bit disappointed. No magic, no superhero, no sci-fi, no mind numbing brain puzzles, but a story about the World War II. A Nolan movie - a plain old war movie! However, as one would expect with the director, it turned out to be different. It's a gripping story that keeps you captivated with the Hans Zimmer music in the background.

It's not so much about the warriors as about the survivors. Not so much about the destroyers as about the saviours. The palpable tension in the pin drop silence. The stillness of mind amid the explosions. There's no denying the fact that if anyone could revel in portraying such paradoxes, it's Christopher Nolan. Victories are overrated. A victory would just be a one time affair whereas true success would lie in the sustained excellence, in beating sky high expectations again and again, in delivering a masterpiece after masterpiece.

Dunkirk isn't just a war movie, it's a roller-coaster of emotions, a salute to the human spirit of survival.

Highly recommended to all.