Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This will make some people feel sick, and some sick people aroused. I was mostly bored the entire time. Very weak film IMHO, although I see some glowing reviews of it.
All the stars for Gong Li. No, actually I appreciated other aspects of the movie, although I think the narrative is unnecessarily convoluted, to the point I felt lost in the chronology. When the film ended I was left scratching my head about what I'd watched. Was it all just a depiction of events in the book in the film? Anyway, the film nails the right mood for the story and once again - Gong Li.
The second half turns into a roll your eyes exercise such is the amount of melodramatic twists thrown at you. It completely sucked my enjoyment of the movie.
The battle of Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo is one of the most fascinating episodes of WWII. Oddly enough it hasn't been portrayed in movies very often, no doubt because the Americans weren't involved in the war yet. They would remain so for another year and a half. Understandably so, Hollywood has a tendency to favor stories where the protagonism belongs to American characters. I'm pretty sure Nolan's project only saw the green light because nowadays the worldwide box office has…