Dunkirk Time Theory Explained

I ve Dunkirk not even as a rule for my analysis a suspense thriller I think that the elements would distinguish Dunkirk as a story you know obviously during water and conflict but it's this ticking clock it says race against time how is it if you know Nolan you know he likes adding an extra element to his films and even with Dunkirk which some would consider his most straightforward movie he still manages to mess around with your mind by manipulating time on screen it's something he's done in memento by reversing time and after stellar by making it circular and in Dunkirk he sets up in overlapping anthology between three storylines that's meant to put you in the soldiers shoes and since I notice that my screening that some people were a little confused with what was going on and how it all played out I want to make a video not only breaking down the storylines but explained that thematic purpose behind the use of time in the film I didn't want to give the audience knowledge the characters didn't have other than through the interaction of these three distinct story threads so there's three story lines that take place on land at sea and in the air the story line on land is titled the mole and takes place across a week and relied on sand oranges with it's a aesthetic the storyline at sea took place in a day and relied its visuals and dark blues while the sky-blue air story line spanned a total of just one hour that why have them all be in different timelines so according to Nolan the reason for it was to resemble a war story in the sense that when you're recounting something you tend to jump around trying to bring it in from all different perspectives to create one story even though they'd all have different starting points there's a cool chart made by Haven B 3 that shows when the three story lines would converge in that final hour which might help some of you if you need the visuals so I'll leave a link for it in the description for the rest of you who saw the movie once I highly recommend watching it again so notice the cool little cross paths that Nolan puts in the film for example there's Cillian Murphy's character who is the composed soldier in the beginning who later on denies the two boys on the rowing boats and yet he becomes the shell-shocked soldier who gets rescued to see Colin's character land in the water from Tom Hardy's perspective who thinks that the way from his partner is a signal of him being okay and then seeing that the reality was he was drowning it puts a group of a group of men in this case into a terrifying situation and invites through this visceral treatment the audience to go this is what it's like you don't need to know where they're from nobody's nobody seems have a surname or a backstory or anything you don't need to only about being in this situation now the timelines play with perception and with lost time as a soldier you don't know when those ships are leaving you don't know what that aircraft is going to protect you if you'll ever be saved and even from the rescuers perspective you don't know if you're going to make it there in time so as opposed to movies that really focus in on the characters this is really focusing in on the event there's no like crazy backstories to any of the characters really I think they're a relatively blank slate and it means when you're watching it you're kind of projecting your fear you're almost like watching them just imagining it as you and it's you know I've had a very emotional and I was in it and there's a beauty in that if you know Nolan you know he likes to keep things simple in the most complex way possible there's really no blood in the movie to avoid becoming an action film that's too grotesque as he says in keeping with this theme of time being valuable he had Hans Zimmer take a recording of his own pocket watch and used that ticking as the central theme for the movie if you know Nolan you know that he's so against CGI that he's willing to halt everyone out to the actual location in Dunkirk to really put you in their shoes I'm ample cameras on plane wings in order to be able to get the perspective that he wanted he spent five million dollars on vintage military crafts in order to get the look he wanted and the man hates CGI so much he chose cardboard cutouts instead of going for computer effects to fill in the extras and he goes through those lengths to fulfill his reality of what he believes a movie should be its 2017 so it's not like you can't achieve a lot of those things with computer-generated effects but it's that he doesn't consider that a real film and that idea extends to something that he's covered in all of his movies and it's a subject of a big video that I have coming up and that's the idea of creating our own realities and Dunkirk all the soldiers at the end feel like failures but when they read the news pay and see this different narrative they see how they're considered heroes by the entire country and they've gone from just survivors to save you it's a reversal of the rock traditional roles right so you know normally we were used to watching and you know any film that is involves war or the army you know it's they're the heroes and they come in and they'd save the day and I think the what's incredible about the evacuation is that it was the regular people it was the you know the ordinary people who came in and and completely reversed things and changed the course of history with the two young soldiers we see that it's white lies that actually may help you survive a war that when you rescue a beach of soldiers with an empty tank it may be best to leave them cheering to give them that boost that they need while you become a prisoner of war so they never have to be the movie starts in the middle of the action because it's not about the past that abruptly ends because it's not about the future it's a movie that's all about that moment that the value of time was really key to him and he saw Dunkirk as away which that was all wrapped up time was was so precious both to get them off the beaches and in those young lives again the movie isn't about one perspective that all of them to put you in the place of a soldier on the beach in the year out at sea whose thrust into that situation with little knowledge to combine all of their experiences to create this one moment in time and with it being Nolan's first adaptation on a historical event it may not be the most accurate but he's okay with that because sometimes the story being told is more powerful than reality and thus transcends time [Music] [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 6min 35sec (395 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 22 2017