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| Christopher Nolan's 2017 film "Dunkirk" |
While I was watching Dunkirk with Anthony, Paul, Matt, Bart and Jeff, the word that kept
coming to mind was “tight.”
Director Christopher Nolan focuses tightly on the
common-man Brits trapped and struggling in this World War II drama, putting you
right INTO the cockpit of the Spitty,
below decks on the sinking ship and aboard the small civilian craft crossing
the English Channel to save the trapped troops. The storytelling is also tight,
beginning at almost the end of the story with the despairing, defeated soldiers
being machine-gunned and bombed, moving with unrelenting suspense for a brisk
107 minutes.
By the end of the eighth day, 338,226 soldiers had
been rescued by a quickly assembled fleet of over 800 boats, many of them Thames
vessels, car ferries, pleasure craft, speedboats and other small civilian boats.
This film’s tight focus puts that extraordinary historic effort into personal,
human terms while never stinting on the adventure.
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