Sometimes an event is called miraculous when there is no way anyone could survive under those circumstances that Dunkirk was. Let alone a very large amount of people like at Dunkirk and those seamen in The Finest Hours. Dunkirk was a piece of hell. It will be mentioned that survival was enough at one point in the movie. That fact was agreed with by the British citizens and even the newspapers. One of the British citizens, a man, who took a boat out to help like many others were asked to do.
He showed great character in the middle of this even though knowing a good deal about what he was getting into. The man still went after a downed pilot in the water knowing his chute didn't open. His young son who was with him on his boat. He displayed great character as well by holding onto a soldier that was trying to get on the boat in the middle of a plane crash in the water. He got that soldier on the boat. The large amount …show more content…
Given how many men survived that place, survival is a victory makes sense. Hope is a weapon make sense now because that is probably what kept these men going through all of that. Remember, I said that Dunkirk was a piece of hell.
The soldiers had to escape one thing after another. They went from being okay for a second. Then they were in trouble again. They kept going back and forth like that. So there is definitely a reason after all of that the boats would be a sight of joy for them. What seems to practically be impossible does happen on occasion. In fact, human beings have helped to accomplish that. One example of a human being who has done that is Desmond T. Doss in World War II and he didn't carry a gun. The evacuation of the soldiers at Dunkirk shouldn't have been successful in any way at all. I guess that is one reason why someone would want to make a movie about