Dunkirk

I like to believe I've progressed from a 12 year old who only wanted to watch this because of Harry Styles... This realistic portrayal of war is so refreshing...war is sad and fucking scary not badass, prideful or victorious...even when you win, what you have lost along the way will always accompany the victory cheer. I love how in the end, after all the painstaking anxiety they have faced when they go home, Alex is ashamed and afraid that they aren't percieved as these war heroes and only when they are, then he feels as if what happened was worthy of celebration (like the blind person said, just simply surving was enough). The paper is read and the politicians and people who haven't set foot on a battle field start talking about how they will have to be ready to fight conflicts and start glorifying the battles to come , championing the survival of these soldiers (they deserve the celebration) and a montage comes up and the music rises....much like in all the other war movies - then we see Tom Hardy's character being taken by the enemy and then after reading the paper we see Tommy's face, not celebrating with the others but having a realization or trying to understand what he just read, that the war is not over - and what they just went through is going to have to repeat itself I dunno that's what i took away (i might just be pushing my own narritives on this film) ... but basically i feel this tries taking a realistic look at war...like these were real people and this was how it was, war is not a subgenre of film, it was people's lives. We don't follow a main character (atleast not a three dimensional one) , there aren't any heroes....we're simply observing what happened... (blah blah blah more of me taking nonsense because i don't know how to process movies - but goddamn i try)