Dunkirk

⭐ 9.0/10

(Originally written by Rebecca)

Tom Hardy Night VI. As a rule I don't watch war movies because they make me too sad, but I did it for my friend Tom, even though you only see his actual face for like 3 seconds so it's barely even worth it. Anyway, this movie was SO stressful. Like, an unreal amount of stress, which was really heightened by the score and sound editing, which was incredible (and won an Oscar). The movie's about the famous evacuation of the 400,000 soldiers stranded on Dunkirk beach, when civilians were asked to take their own boats across the water to pick up any soldiers they could. You never see a single enemy, but at all times you're aware that they could launch another attack. It's basically just one bad thing after another, and it's very visceral without being gory or bloody. At times I had trouble keeping track of what was happening and why, so it was nice to watch it with someone who had seen it before. As with all war movies, I ended more depressed and horrified by the realities of war than anything, but I could definitely recognize that it was an amazing movie. The moral of the story is: war is bad.