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NOLAN VOID 3.5: WET 'N WILD WWII

Join TGTPTU for an hour, a day, a week—the approximate runtime of, how long it feels listening to us talk for, and the delay in releasing the episode due to internet issues, respectively—as we respectfully cover Sir Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK (2017) as part two of our third pairing in our NOLAN VOID season.

Surprisingly his shortest major release film, Sir Chris employs his time bending chops to retell the heroic(question mark) story of England’s bravely running away, away, bravely turning their tails and fleeing from the Nazis and the French through three intercut and overlapping tales with a cast strictly from the British Isles: young WWII soldiers played by mostly unknowns (with one notable Millennial icon exception) over a presumable span of a week try evacuating the French beach; cutie Barry Keoghan on a civilian boat sent to help evacuate Dunkirk over a day tries surviving a head wound caused by shell-shocked Cillian Murphy while Mark Rylance keeps a stiff upper lip and carries on; and, finally, over an hour of flight due to leaking fuel, Tom Hardy (Bane on a plane) provides air support shooting his machine gun from his Spitfire: pew-pew-pew (and if the movie feels like a run-on sentence, then perhaps this verbose paragraph is justified).

At approximately half the cost of INTERSTELLAR (preceding film yet to be discussed this season), Dame Thomas considers this a low-budget production of only $100M that used real equipment from the era for an air of verisimilitude. As mentioned last episode, experiences gained shooting on water will prepare the Nolan team for the wet work in TENET (subsequent film already discussed). Despite or because of this historical piece’s bending the war genre with little dialogue and absence of enemy combatants (Germans) portrayed, Dunkirk earned Sir Big Daddy Time his first Oscar nom for director but (spoiler for our second episode) not his last.

TGTPTU recommendation: Dunkirk is best watched in IMAX if you’re gonna.

THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.

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