Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 11, 2017 2:47:01 GMT
@ Cake_of_Roth:
Dunkirk looked great in the trailer to me but I see it as a huge risk. Nolan has always been a filmmaker of a certain trickery - be it the early noirs or the gimmickry (not a put down) of Inception and The Prestige. Even where there isn't trickery per se there's something that distinctly focuses us on him. There is something in every film he's made that suggests his supreme intelligence I guess I'm saying and not in a way that is absent to the audience.
In a movie with this subject matter, I'm thinking he's going to have tone that thing down and be "anonymously great" like Louis Malle or someone - it's going to be a triumph and artistic breakthrough..........or it's going to be a lumbering bore I'm thinking.
I keep reading from different sources that the film is supposed to resemble more of an action/suspense thriller about survival than a straight-down-the-middle war picture and that its narrative structure will be more ambitious than what some are maybe expecting. Apparently there will be 3 interwoven story threads on the beach, sea, and air over the course of the film, with mixing of different temporal strata... which sounds like more of Nolan's narrative ingenuity that you're alluding to (though probably not to the same degree as his previous films).
But yeah, when I first heard about the project, I was a little concerned that it could turn out to be a "lumbering bore," as you put it, but after reading more about what Nolan is apparently seeking to achieve with the film, I think it has the potential to dazzle.
