But, then what is a typical Nolan movie? Dark Night? Inception? Interstellar? Prestige? Memento? What is really common to these movies except that each is a unique master piece, like nothing else we see. Stories that have never been told before, and in a way we will never see again. Movies that stay with us for life, growing in their iconicity, as the years pass by. Film-making that is always unpredictable, larger-than-life, ambitious, and so immersive that you feel a part of the canvas unfolding in front of you.
Dunkirk IS a typical Nolan movie. It is how Nolan would do a war movie. Just like how Interstellar was how Nolan would do a space movie or Dark Night how he would do a super hero movie, and so on.
Dunkirk is a freeze frame on one event in history during World War 2. And just like when you see a frame for too long, it starts revealing to you colours, and emotions, and sounds that you didn't know were there before. Because it was just one frame out of thousands in history.
In times of anger that we live in, it simply lays out what war feels like. Is this really what we want? It puts just basic good old survival at the heart of the conversation. And most importantly, it places the power of the world in the hands of us, the citizens of the world. After all, it is only us, the common folk, who can eventually save the world!
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