“Dunkirk” is the latest work of the talented Christopher Nolan, and it gains excellent comments from a number of foreign critics unanimously, nearly without any poor reviews!
Before watching this movie I suggest everyone should understand the background, Dunkirk was the key incident of the history in WWll. A lot of people will discuss this movie with “Saving Private Ryan” together, and find out Dunkirk is more miserable than the former one or not? The answer is NO! As it does not belong to any war. When the German army attacked France in 1940s, UK formed an alliance with several countries to block the force of Germany. Unfortunately, the alliance lost one after one, there were around 400,000 forced to confine at the beach in Dunkirk, where no roads to leave and the enemies were following behind. Based on normal situation, there will be vigorous wars of defences happened immediately, but the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill ordered to retreat the army for the reserve of military strength. Actually this is a real incident in our history, Hitler stopped the attack from German army ground force, and ordered sporadic attack by sending a few air force. Therefore, we can see the jointed army awaited helplessly for reinforcement at the beach, while German air force attacked occasionally — The attack is not as miserable as we think!
As usual, Christopher Nolan still produces a spectacular work in terms of brilliant photography and sound effect — The opening battle gives audience a fierce, real and exciting feeling, the shooting sound vividly portrays a scene to allow them feel as if they are participating. You can imagine a heavy pressure nearby you. The aerial warfare seems to be extremely realistic—the fuel consumption of a plane can only be used for an hour, fortunately the pilot is patient enough to fight the enemy, and persist to consume the final drop of fuel before he gets caught. That moment I realise he is Tom Hardy; the another storyline indicates numerous citizen open their boat to save the stranded army at Dunkirk, which shows the noble sentiment of the normal people!
You might be disappointed if you think it is a war movie. Although Dunkirk does not involve many war scenes, actually you nearly cannot find any German troop appear inside the movie. The biggest issue is you cannot think about a memorable face, a signature scene, and even an unforgettable dialogue! If you do not mind to watch a documentary with movie technique, Dunkirk is worthy to watch! I score 4 stars!
這是大導演Christopher Nolan的新作，外國影評一面倒讚好，幾乎沒有劣評！
看這片前建議大家先了解它的背景，鄧寇克這段歷史是第二次世界大戰中的關鍵事件，很多人會將這片與『雷霆救兵』相題並論，它會否比前者更慘烈，答案是否定的，因為它本身不算是一場戰役，在1940年德軍攻入法國，隔岸的英國為了阻止德軍的攻勢，與各國組成聯軍與德軍對戰，卻節節敗退，40萬聯軍被逼到了鄧寇克的海灘，前無出路，後有追兵，英相邱吉爾為保存軍力，下令撤軍，按一般常理應該是連場激烈的攻防戰，但由於這是真實歷史，當年希特拉卻無故停止了陸軍裝甲步隊的進攻，只派空軍零星的攻擊，所以在這電影中我們看見聯軍在沙灘上無助地的等救兵，德軍飛機間中來攻擊，戰況並不如想象中慘烈！
論導演功力依然交出功夫，攝影與音效都精彩絕倫，開場時的槍林彈雨，真實而刺激，從前後左右來的槍聲令觀眾如親歷其境，極有壓迫力；這片的空戰拍法很有實感，由於燃油只夠飛一小時，機師冷靜迎戰，堅持到用盡最後一滴油而被擒，這時才知他原來是Tom Hardy；另一條線是講很多平民百姓自發開船趕往營救，展現『拔義每多屠狗輩』的偉大情操！
如果你抱著看戰爭片入場，可能會有點失望，它沒有太多對戰場面，事實上整套片幾乎沒有看到有德軍出現。最大問題是看到完場時似乎想不起那一個面孔令人有印象，沒有那一場戲特別深刻，沒有那一句對白令人特別回味！不過，如果你不介意看一部用電影手法拍攝的紀錄片，它非常值得看！我給4粒星！
