Dunedkirk

Finally got around to watching that Nolan war movie.

I'm gonna admit I couldn't tell various people apart. At best I got the Mole plot, the Boat plot and the Air plot, but if we saw different people during those plots, I wouldn't be able to point to whomst was whomst. But in the Mole plot (they make a point of calling it a Mole, so I will to), we got some soldiers just trying to survive and evacuate, and some do. On the Boat plot, we get some people trying to help soldiers, and some survive to do so. And in the Air plot, pilots try to stop the enemy fighters, and some do.

This is both a positive movie of "hey, some people survived!" but also realistic in "not everyone did". Much is made of the time side of things, but I didn't really feel it. Not that I would expect aircraft to be in the air for several nights (which we got in the mole plot), but there's plenty of continuity of action that makes it feel like it is all happening at once, and I have no innate sense of how far away or big Dunkirk is to think "they did that quick/slow/on time".

There are some actors I recognise, and plenty I would have no idea about short of browsing the IMDB page. Everyone does a fine performance, as far as I can see, but this does remind me of a twist I'd like to do to a war movie, that I've probably mentioned before. Gender-flip the actors. Not the characters, they stay as they are, but the actors. I'm sure that is meaningful of something.

I thought this was three hours before I saw it, and it was far more watchable that I was thinking. Finally ticked it off the "oh yeah, I guess I'll see it some time" list.

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