Posted on 08/07/2017 4:35:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes and no. I think he portrayed British soldiers in an unfavorable light. I am not sure the statement about Churchill withholding air and naval support was accurate.
Overall, I did not like the movie
It is a great movie that tells the tale in a unique way.
I would classify the Dunkirk-haters into three categories. There is simply the anti-war crowd, and they see this as patronizing war or it’s associated violence. The second crowd are the type that generally want some romance piece out of any epic story (War and Peace, or Doctor Zhivago for example). The third group are the precise-history crowd (A Bridge Too Far is a good example of this group), who want every single detail and name to be absolutely precise.
For the bare essentials individual who really doesn’t remember much about this topic in school or college...Dunkirk is a reminder of three essentials of life.
1. If you say something is impossible...then you ought to go and put every ounce of strength into proving the statement is false.
2. If you’d lined up various nationalities on the Earth and just said we need civilians to haul up tomorrow...manning sailboats and pleasure-boats....to face down some Nazis and rescue some guys in uniform, then there’s only two groups on the face of the Earth who’d do something this crazy (Americans and Brits).
3. Finally, there are absolutely consequences in life. Without that rescue, the Nazis likely come to England within six months...invade....taking the isle. That one screw-up, and the dynamics of rescue...set about the consequences in five years of Berlin being surrounded and defeated. Consequences matter.
The corruption of history is a primary focus of the left, and to some degree it is an effectively evil technique; comparable to sociopathic indoctrination.
That is, a psychopath is “naturally wired” in their brain to dehumanize others, be it natural or induced by brain injury. But a sociopath is taught as a child to be sociopathic: to dehumanize others, imagine them insensitive to pain, soulless, and especially insignificant and unimportant. And importantly, to disregard any information that does not conform to their twisted belief system.
But to be trained as a sociopath, or trained to *stop* being a sociopath, a person must be taught early, or have that teaching reversed. By the time they become an adult, with a mature brain, they may be “set in stone” with their beliefs.
And thus the left is keen on controlling education, to subvert the family belief system in favor of socialist leftism. The Nazis did this with the children under their control, and to this day, some of the surviving Hitler Youth still admire and support that ideology, albeit discreetly.
The biggest take from this goes to the story of “healing the sick mind”, in that while non-sociopathic adults may learn from and enjoy the movie Dunkirk; it is especially important that children see it as well.
Because a little truth can dispel a lot of propaganda.
First, I have not seen the movie, however as a historian specializing in WW2, I will state that, in the view of the individual soldiers at Dunkirk, it appeared that Churchill, the Prime Minister was withholding support.
However, much of the support provided by the RAF was at high altitude where they were intercepting the Luftwaffe and lessening its bombing and strafing of the soldiers. Also, there was the decision by Churchill and the Royal Navy to withhold sending its battleships and cruisers into the narrow English Channel because of their being vulnerable to the Luftwaffe.
Britain lost 6 destroyers early in the fight and pulled the Navy back to save their resources for the next stage of that e fight. Sometimes this simply has to be done. This is war, not a tv show
Difficult decisions a made and executed.
A common
Loved the movie, and it showed the sacrifice from the 3 branches, and civilians.
According to this veteran who was there he said it was portrayed exactly right.
http://faithtap.com/8222/brave-dunkirk-veteran-weeps-at-movie-theatre-after-watching-film/
A common question of the soldiers was “Where is the RAF?”
The answer is that they took on the German air force at longer distances from the beach. They kept the Germans out of the beach area successfully but were out far enough that the soldiers could not see them.
British air losses: 106 aircraft
German air losses 156 aircraft
The few German aircraft to make it past the Spitfires were taken out above or very near the beach.
I would pay to see another movie that would be about the ground battles. And another about the air battles.
This movie is so inspiring. Certain death or incarceration turned into a miracle of salvation.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. It cleans the air of liberal lies.
People like this need to be subjugated, disempowered, and then forced to make a man a sandwich.
I have come to believe extremist female empowerment is a weapon against civilization.
There is no need for it, and it harms women as much as it harms men.
The one that 1st comes to mind is “Mrs Miniver.” But coming from a reality based generation that could actually win wars, it also show her husband as one of the British civilians who took his pleasure craft to Dunkirk for the evacuation.
PC do-gooders and hairy legged feminists:
Truth and fact be damned! The portrayal of men at war is not FEMINIZED and sanitized enough! We must have hairy-legged, Bam-Bam (Flintstones) legged women warriors present at where they never were!
Justice can only be served by altering history to suit our narrow and self-centered needs.
The film is superb! Bravo to Nolan, his team and the so many thousands of men who fought and perished. May God and country never distort their contributions to our freedoms, Feminists be damned...
The smallest boat to take part in the evacuation was a fifteen foot fishing boat which is now in a museum, well cared for.
Of the civilian boats which took part about 400 to 500 are still operating as of 2015.
12 boats in the movie, many of them used in close ups, fly a flag with a white background, a red cross with the coat arms of Dunkirk at in the center of the cross. The flag is only to be flown by those boats which participated in the evacuation.
This is a wonderful movie. Just flat out good. Go see it.
It is worth your time to read up on the Dunkirk evacuation on the net before you see the movie. It was a truly desperate situation for the soldiers.
this is a great movie - but i do not want to see it again. it was horribly intense building to a feverish pitch when i thought i couldn’t bear it any more - in the movie theater! i have only felt that way once before - during the ghetto liquidation scene in “Schindler’s List.” i recommend it highly.
I told my wife that the movie would be terribly intense and it was.
Your review above, btw, is the best I have seen. The movie still haunts me.
Marie Clare’s own Description of this woman writer critic of the movie. It shows how seriously she should be taken.
“Brooklyn-dwelling Entertainment editor with a love for Twin Peaks, 90s teen romances, and movies about summer.”
Here’s a website about it;
http://gcaptain.com/maritime-monday-april-twntytwo-twntytwlve-dunkirk-jack/
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.