Summary Of Christopher Nolan's 'Evacuation Of Dunkirk'

The three narratives “Home Soil” by Irene Zabytko, “Song of Napalm” by Bruce Weigl, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen all have the same feelings of war and memory, although not everyone experiences the same war. Zabytko, Weigl, and Owen used shifting beats, dramatic descriptions, and intense, painful images, to convince us that the horror of war far outweighs the

Wilfred Owens poem “Dulce et Decorum est” and Bruce Dawe’s poem “Homecoming” are poems from different wars, however both highlight the indignity of war. Owen’s poem is broken up into three sections, where he expresses the torture soldiers suffer

In the poems of “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Facing It” written by Wilfred Owen and Yusef Komunyakaa respectively, two entirely different yet similar stories of war are told. “Dulce et Decorum Est” is told through the perspective of our narrator as he’s directly in the middle of a war and of the horrors he sees. From the unforgiving terrain to the description of the already beaten down soldiers, and quickly followed up with a gas attack, it is not a pretty picture. The poem tells of the soldiers scrambling to put their helmets on to shield them from the gas, but not all of them make it. One soldier helplessly fumbles with his helmet and does not manage to put it on in time. The images of his friend choking and drowning are all too real for

The author of ‘Homecoming’, Bruce Dawe, illustrates and describes the catastrophes of the Vietnam War in a calm but negative tone. Dawe uses this poem to represent the soldiers and the experiences they went through during WW1. The poetic techniques that he used in this poem “homecoming” were Imagery, Onomatopoeia and Repetition throughout the whole poem. Bruce Dawe helps the readers to understand the theme of how war is bad and a tragic waste of human life. This poem takes the readers to a place in time where our ancestral blood lines fought and lost their lives during WW1, in the hopes that future generations would have a better future in life.

During times of war, it is inevitable for loss to be experienced by all. In the poems “The Black Rat” and “The Photograph” written by Iris Clayton and Peter Kocan respectively, the idea of loss is explored through an omniscient narrator recalling a soldier’s involvement in warfare. While Clayton writes of a soldier’s abrupt loss of hope and how this experience negatively affects his life, Kocan explores how the loss of a loved one affects a family sixty years later. While both poems incorporate similar techniques in imagery and narration, the time setting for each poem is different as “The Black Rat” is set in Tobruk, Libya during World War 2 and “The Photograph” is set during World War 1.

World War One poets Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen both use poetry to examine their differing perspectives surrounding the idea of heroism in war. Brooke’s The Soldier depicts an idealistic, patriotic view towards fighting for his country, whereas Owen’s Dulce et Decorum est demonstrates a realistic view of the senseless horrors of war. Both poets utilise similar poetic techniques of imagery and sound devices to express their contradictory views of the atrocious events of the greatest war that the world had ever seen at that time.

With every journey comes a destination which is dependent on the degree of the individual and their will to potentially better themselves. A journey offers travelers the opportunity to extend themselves physically, intellectually and emotionally as they respond to challenges. Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron is a contemporary fractured fairytale in the form of a play that explores the grim, Australian legend of the missing child. This text portrays real issues in an absurd representation which forces the reader on an imaginative journey as well as the characters in an inner journey to establish an identity. Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor is a distressing elegy about loss of life through war. Slessor’s sophisticated language, allows the responder to empathise and mourn the wastefulness of life in war while also to appreciate the commonality of human existence. This text highlights the concept of journeying of the soul from both the reader and the responder. Through the use of a variety of visual and written techniques, these texts portray the concept of an existential journey, the indefinite search for true self and true personal meaning in life. Deep loss of an individual or one others’ individuality triggers an existential crisis and without journeying imaginatively, the chance to create one’s purpose becomes absent.

Poets frequently utilize vivid images to further depict the overall meaning of their works. The imagery in “& the War Was in Its Infancy Then,” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, conveys mental images in the reader’s mind that shows the physical damage of war with the addition of the emotional effect it has on a person. The reader can conclude the speaker is a soldier because the poem is written from a soldier’s point of view, someone who had to have been a first hand witness. The poem is about a man who is emotionally damaged due to war and has had to learn to cope with his surroundings. By use of imagery the reader gets a deeper sense of how the man felt during the war. Through the use of imagery, tone, and deeper meaning, Decaul shows us the

While both cinematography and editing are important factors in the scene from Dunkirk, it is the cinematography which makes the scene so powerful. The verisimilitude of the scene is constructed around a young soldier in the process of evacuating a beach in France. The screenplay and the linear cohesion of events helps build a truth for the viewer and evokes an emotional and adrenaline stimulated response in the viewer. In this scene from Dunkirk, the editing and timing is more important than the cinematography.

War often captures a writer’s interest and provides inspiration for his or her work. In this particular case it is World War I that moved Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost to write Disabled and Out, out – respectively. Both poems were written during WWI, Disabled in 1917 and Out, out – in 1916. Although both poets had different views and experiences of WWI (as Owen was English and had first hand experience of combat and Frost was American and did not fight) both poems reflect on the loss of innocence that so often was the result of too young soldiers allowed to fight in France. These young men made up a large percentage of the soldiers fighting and therefore a high portion of the dead and severely wounded. Both poems interpret and deliberate the

In her “Why ‘Dunkirk’ was the hit of summer” (August 30, 2017), Suzanne Fields asserts that the movie ‘Dunkirk’ was the hit movie of the summer. Fields conveys and projects the reason of the hit by implying that it says something to the cultural sensibility of our own time, Richard Brody explaining that it may be the first virtual reality movie, and in a visual age pictures have primacy over words, and ‘Dunkirk’ testifies to history reduced to spectacle without specifics. Suzanne’s purpose is to inform us on why this movie ‘Dunkirk’ was the hit movie of the summer in order to expand our knowledge on the popularity on movies and how certain things can tie together with a movie. The intended audience for this would be viewers of the movie

‘Harbingers’ by Curt Bennett is a poem written in 2014 for the Normandy landings anniversary of pure genius that confronts the audience about the horrifying truth and the brutality of war. Bennett’s ten stanza poem looks at all aspects of war; the fighting and death, the feelings and emotions and the political involvement. Throughout the third person narrative Bennett uses personification, alliteration and assonance to make the underlying messages truly hit tome. Curt Bennett writes about a lot of themes in this poem, but mainly the surviving veterans returning to say their last goodbye to the friends and family that paid the ultimate sacrifice, for what Bennett describes as a necessary evil of Mankind’s political process. Bennett also uses smaller key themes to create underlying messages and make an overall story.

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is about a photographer who is struggling with the consequences and reality of war. The voice of criticism from the experience of war combined with the use of poetic devices exposes the theme of war. The poet uses compelling and distressing illustrations in this poem to enthrall pathos into the reader’s feelings. The use of pathos stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Therefore, his photographic films are filled with images of the genuine agony caused by the bloodshed of war. The rhyme scheme is laid out in four regular six-line stanzas, with each stanza ending in a rhyming couplet. It sets the tone to create a wonderful contrast between the positive and negative prospects of war. As the theme of death is explored, the poet describes the photographer’s mind vividly, unraveling both the atrocity of war and the indifference of those who live in comfort.

In the torpedoed ship scene, Christopher Nolan utilises cinematic techniques to convey the importance of time in survival. When the torpedo strikes the soldiers in the cabin become trapped and submerged in water. Initially, Nolan’s uses dark frames and includes the unintelligible shouting of men. As a result, the viewers are unable to see or hear the soldiers. This creates tension and makes the audience panicked. Eventually, handheld camera is used to reveal the chaotic scene of trapped, struggling soldiers. The unsteadiness of the camera and the incorporation of air bubbles makes the scene more realistic and, elicits a fearful response from the audience. The camera also captures a close up of Tommy frantically jerking his head around him,

Throughout Wilfred Owen’s collection of poems, he unmasks the harsh tragedy of war through the events he experienced. His poems indulge and grasp readers to feel the pain of his words and develop some idea on the tragedy during the war. Tragedy was a common feature during the war, as innocent boys and men had their lives taken away from them in a gunshot. The sad truth of the war that most of the people who experienced and lived during the tragic time, still bare the horrifying images that still live with them now. Owen’s poems give the reader insight to this pain, and help unmask the tragedy of war.