Ghandi's Flip Flops
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Dunkirk - 7.9/10
Mixed feelings about this.
I've read a fair few first hand veteran accounts about Dunkirk and what's comes across in a lot of them is the chaos, carnage, breakdown in discipline and hopelessness of the situation. Those located in the port and on the mole speak of how the oil & fuel terminals had been ablaze for days causing a thick shroud of smoke to hang over the area, in so much as they could only hear enemy planes starting their attacks, then only the see them as they popped out of the smoke a few hundred metres about them.
Those on the beaches spoke of waiting hours & queueing in chest high water, and not being able to move for fear of losing their places, all the while looking at thousands of men in a similar situation or seeing the hundreds of bodies being washed ashore with each new tide.
So in view of this, while i enjoyed the film while i was watching it, i felt it was all a little too 'clean' and failed to convey the magnitude of the situation.
Still think the 5 minute long single take tracking shot from 'Atonement' takes some beating
Mixed feelings about this.
I've read a fair few first hand veteran accounts about Dunkirk and what's comes across in a lot of them is the chaos, carnage, breakdown in discipline and hopelessness of the situation. Those located in the port and on the mole speak of how the oil & fuel terminals had been ablaze for days causing a thick shroud of smoke to hang over the area, in so much as they could only hear enemy planes starting their attacks, then only the see them as they popped out of the smoke a few hundred metres about them.
Those on the beaches spoke of waiting hours & queueing in chest high water, and not being able to move for fear of losing their places, all the while looking at thousands of men in a similar situation or seeing the hundreds of bodies being washed ashore with each new tide.
So in view of this, while i enjoyed the film while i was watching it, i felt it was all a little too 'clean' and failed to convey the magnitude of the situation.
Still think the 5 minute long single take tracking shot from 'Atonement' takes some beating