Dunkirk

To the average American, here is a name which means almost nothing .... except now we have a movie about this travesty in history!

It was not my desire to see yet another war movie - but it seems that Theron's latest offering's highlight is a lesbian sex scene, hence the R rating.  So, Dunkirk it was!

I know the history of the evacuation of Dunkirk.  I was at the 25th Anniversary held on the beaches.  And you better believe no one official came!  But the survivors were well represented and I talked with many for hours ...

The movie is just that, a work of representative fiction.  But, it was a very well done movie!
Where the movie failed was too many detours to situations that made no sense nor added to rthe story in any way!  Just "filler"!  And there were no 98mm, nor 108mm shells raining down on the beach!

And, those shells were what the survivors I talked to, remembered the most!  Just the terror in their eyes as trey recalled it - standing there 25 years later!!!!!!!!!

That event was what help me reach out to the shell-shocked vet whom lived across the street from me
when I was in college.  And that memory was what I took away from the movie.

It was exciting and engrossing.  Strongly recommended!

However, if you have weak heart, please avoid.  I barely made it home - due to yet another heart failure!  Swede just sighed, probably  wondering "how much longer.....?"