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divinekangaroo · 6 months ago

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Really struggle with how all war movies, even ones relatively successful at representing the horrors and sheer randomness and the insanity of war, have to end with some kind of propagandist imagery, as if it's compulsory that the insanity of what war is needs to be looped back into some fundamental essentiality of human emotional existence.

(Dunkirk should have ended several minutes before it did.)

The trippiest bit was when my 7yo, watching with me, turned to me and said, 'Mum, is this heaven?'

And I went....'What do you mean?'

'I dunno, it's just, it reminds me of heaven.'

*stares at the screen in silent horror*

#dearness but that plummy british accent filled me with a certain violent revulsion #that poor guy went home to some warm loving family and after a year shot himself on christmas day in his mother's bedroom :(#pb s6 = dunkirk reunion??#more ordinarily the 7yo was also going on about 'wow how did they get the cameraman to do that' so there is something about nolan's-#-fascination with technically difficult movies if even a 7yo is amazed by it.#but i just struggle with nolan's ability to....storytell? *shrug* it's not quite that but yeah you just feel overconscious of the technical #on the storytelling i did very much like how everyone's horror stories reveal a horror in someone else's story #but felt quite disconnected and unconcerned about any individual #they all felt like mouthpieces #the best were the duo-trio at the beginning before they started talking

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