men during the liberation of
death camps, whereas the voices
of victims of earlier campaigns
of genocide are growing more
silent with every passing day.
And of course there are still
some living among us who ex-
perienced the conflict first-hand.
Despite this, even WWII is
dominated by numbers. We may
groan every time a new Holo-
caust-themed film arrives, and
accuse it of awards-pandering,
but regardless of their filmmak-
ers’ motives, we need these films
- otherwise we’re left with a fig-
ure, six million, too large to wrap
our heads around.
Dunkirk was arguably the most
decisive moment of WWII. In
1940, 400,000 servicement were
safely evacuated from the French
coast by a flotilla of military and
civilian boats. With his dramati-
zation of the event, Christopher
Nolan puts faces to the figures,
viewing the operation through
the eyes of four men.
At ground level is Tommy
(Fionn Whitehead), a private in
Watch the trailer for Dunkirk
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