Nolan’s Dunkirk manages to captivate an audience, showing an importance of war that is rarely covered.

Stunning shots, an eerie uncomfortable score, and a whole lot a grey washes flood the screen in Christopher Nolan’s stunning war spectacle, Dunkirk.

The film itself has been tracked ever since word of production sparked, with fans gripping tightly as they sat and hoped for another great to be added to the film notch on Nolan’s belt. Well, after witnessing the film itself – I can most definitely say that ‘great’ is a term that will be recognised with this film for quite sometime.

What Nolan manages to do with this film is tremendous in the fact that, the focus is never clearly pointed to one lead role. But rather spread on the soldiers and survivors as a whole. There is no glorified ‘heroes’ within Dunkirk, instead it pushes the opposite quite brilliantly. War is shown as survival, it is a hellish place that is almost inescapable should you be caught within it. The soldiers desperately don’t want to be there and are fighting for any chance of leaving just to get back ‘home’. A true sense of realism that more than often has been failed to be captured..

The film as a whole is a spectacle that is tightly wrapped in under 2 hours. Something that Nolan has struggled with in the past. Although it may not have the great ‘epic’ length of most, it surely surpasses many films that stand in its way. This folks, although it may be heavily debated – is the Directors Masterpiece. It is visually and stylistically compelling that captures Nolan’s vision and storytelling to a point of triumph. A spitfire Oscar contender that is sure to cause a stir early in the year.

Dunkirk is playing in theatres now, and I assure you it is not one to be missed.