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"Dunkirk"
The film "Dunkirk" talks about one episode of World War II: this is a forced emergency evacuation of the troops of the English army (as well as the disparate units of the Union armies) from the French coast in the area of the city of Dunkirk on the coast of Great Britain (1940).
The evacuation of nearly half a million armed coalition soldiers, who, when the enemy’s resistance became objectively hopeless, were threatened by the advancing Nazi troops dropped into the sea, there was a salvation operation.
From this point of view, the episode of World War II, which remained in historical memory as Dunkerk, is more meaningful than just a chronicle of heroic resistance to the Hitler invasion. Dunkirk is, first of all, an act of national rally and an example of not only military, but also civil courage, thereby a model of selfless overcoming for all times.
... In the summer of 1940, I was eight years old, and the Second World War - unlike the events of the Civil War in Spain that had not yet departed into the past, has not yet touched me.
And in the future, I “cost” the minimum set of information about the Dunkirka, as they are presented in the works on the history of the Second World War.
The Dunkirk Christopher Nolan is dedicated to the phenomenon of Dunkerk, and therefore he does not reduce to the information that we can extract from historical works.
The phenomenon of Dunkirk is the mobilization of the forces of the nation for evacuation of about 350 thousand soldiers, launched by the German offensive to the sea in the Dunkirk area. The command understood that it did not have regular boats for evacuation from this area, and turned to citizens . As a result, all civilian vessels and any vessels that could take the soldier directly from the beach were involved and then transplant them to larger ships.
About 850 small civilian ships involved from May 26 to June 4, 1940 to evacuate the English and French troops are known.
Actually, Dunkirk was shot about this.
This is a film about hope and despair, about fears that almost deprive his mind, about the loss of hope and readiness for death ... The half -right death of a young man, still a boy; The cold sea and the indifferent sky. The crushing power of the spirit ...
A plane, clearly barely holding on the wing; The drowning large ships and a miracle still surviving fishing shreds-scorpers ... And all this was removed as everyday life, so the assessment remains the task of the viewer.
I watched the film a second time, but the secret of the directorial skill was never revealed to me, thanks to which the viewer feels near the heroes and therefore, albeit subconsciously, forbids himself to indulge in a feeling of hopelessness. Because the threat of death in the film is dissolved in the air, which, without noticing it, is breathing the viewer along with the heroes up to the last frames.
The secret of the film is exactly this together .
Rebekah Frumkin