Dunkirk today:
WW II was my Dad’s war. He would have liked to see this film.
Mr. Mercat and I spent 4 nights at a campground there, on the beach. Beautiful place. Safe. Clean. Cheap.
As if we don’t all know it, today’s youts (for the most part) have no clue what sacrifice is. Or actual oppression.
Probably Winston is spinning at about 2500 rpm these days.
My Father’s battalion was one of those which seemed to always be in interesting places. Not always in the middle of combat, tho.
They were at Normandy, Saint Lo. The assault crossing of the Roer, The Bulge, Assault crossing of the Rhine, etc.
Soon after the war they were at Potsdam, Lake Wansee, and Berlin.
Hitler blew it. He offered modest resistance to the Brits and other allies in their bug-out back to England.
He blew that and he foolishly declared war on the US and even worse..... Russia.
He seemed the genius after Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Holland and France. His alignment with the Soviet Union was played so well, Stalin didn’t believe it when he attacked them.
Thank goodness he screwed up so Royally. Too bad we aligned ourselves with the Soviets so closely. Our big WW 2 mistake
I’m going Saturday. WWII was such a vast enterprise that you can get away with putting just about any story you want in a movie and it probably happened to someone somewhere. They probably didn’t research everything so they called it fictional.
Thanks for the review. I’m planning on seeing this.
Finely a welcome relief from the drek Hollywood has been churning out of late. For the price of admission plus the mandatory popcorn and drink, I am very selective on which movies I will spend that much. Dunkirk seems to be worth the cost.
Whenever I hear recordings of the first of those two Churchill speeches, I can’t help but think of Supertramp’s song “Fool’s Overture”, which very effectively used samples from that very same speech.
Hard to get too exited about “Dunkirk.” “Heroic” my left foot. Those men should all have been cornered and captured. They had no chance...except for the fact that Hitler was a psycho for hesitating on the Wehrmacht order to encircle the troops, then listening to the fat moron Hermann Georing and giving the Luftwaffe the go-ahead instead. That mindless delay is what saved the troops, and Britain. It was one of Hitler’s 3 fatal blunders. The other two being the declaration of war on the U.S. after Pearl Harbor, and Operation Barbarrossa before the West was defeated.
In 1962, while traveling by car from Paris to Brussels, we stopped for dinner in Dunkerque. Shortly after we sat down, a French family sitting next to us got up and moved to the other side of the room.
My mother explained that the family moved because they resented us as Americans and that they were angry that we had bombed the Dunkerque area so heavily during WWII. Even though I was still in grade school, I wondered if that French family would have preferred living under the Nazis because that was the only alternative to bombing them in order to drive them out.
You mean the hero of the movie wasn’t a transgender black midget?
Dunkirk today:
Please don’t take this as pro-Hitler, but didn’t he let the British army escape? I have read several times it was one of his biggest blunders.
Thanks for posting. I haven’t been to a movie in years...(Hollywierd and all that) yet this film interests me from a history perspective. I probably won’t go, but thanks for posting.
HOORAY Brits
Dunkirk was Hitler’s first major blunder-he should have captured the British army.
It is sad that the US almost allowed Britain to be defeated and had to be bombed before entering the war.
Our military was in pathetic shape.
Of course we're not living up to what that generation accomplished. We're pissing it away little by little every day.
I can never hear or read those quotes by Churchill without getting goosebumps. Sometimes they bring tears to my eyes. He was the right man at the right place at the right time. President Trump is no Churchill but I pray he can stand in the breach and rouse a nation the way Winston once did.