Essay On The Movie Dunkirk

I think that one of the most effective aspects of the film were the depictions of the civilian ships that were picking up soldiers from the sea. The boat driven by the dad and the son, for instance, picked up dozens of surviving soldiers from the water. I think that these scenes were very effective in demonstrating the desperation that characterized the need to evacuate the soldiers. Right after the audience saw the destruction of many ships, these civilian boat scenes followed, which helped show the urgency of the situation. Also, the scenes with the planes fighting in the air along with the boat scenes helped clarify how lucky the Allies were when they escaped. Not only did the British airforce manage to stop some of the bombings by destroying enemy planes, but the civilian boats managed to help 350,000 soldiers escape. This truly convinced me that Dunkirk was one of the most important battles of World War Two because so many soldiers could have perished, but they managed to escape and helped the Allies to victory. …show more content…
First, the scale of the rescue and the huge number of soldiers that were stranded was not clearly depicted. The same goes for the airplanes. I remember being able to see only a few hundred soldiers at once and just a few airplanes. This depiction made it seem like the evacuation was small in scale, when in reality it was quite large. Another aspect of the movie that I found to be unconvincing and ineffective was the lack of blood. Like in any battle, multiple deaths were depicted, either from bombing, shooting, or burning. The lack of gore made the movie seem unrealistic to me because gore is very common in actual warfare. Because of this, I felt like this movie was a worse representation of warfare than many other World War Two movies that I have seen in the