The Great Defector wrote:joels344 wrote:I'd say Dunkirk is the masterpiece Nolan has been wanting to direct since his career began.
I thought something like interstellar would be, but you could be right.
I felt
Interstellar had the scope and ambition to be a masterpiece, but ended up collapsing in own its ambition and ideas in the long run. There was even a cringe-worthy moment towards the end of the film. Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant film and among Nolan's finest achievements. However, I see
Dunkirk as his most coherent, stripped-down, harrowing, visually stunning, and fluid film yet. I consider it a classic in the war cinema genre along with
Come and See,
Paths of Glory,
Army of Shadows,
The Thin Red Line, and
Apocalypse Now. All those films are of course different in their approach to the genre, but that's one of the reasons why I'd place
Dunkirk in that class of films.
