Moreover, Dunkirk utilizes a relatively innovative, non-linear storytelling technique that breaks the film’s story down into three distinct timeframes — a week for the infantry, a day for the events that take place at sea, and an hour for the aerial battle that takes place in the skies above the French hamlet.
To call a film like Dunkirk a risk would be an understatement.
Telling such a complicated, three-front story is a challenge in its own right, but selling it to mainstream audiences is another challenge together her.
That said, Dunkirk definitely rose to the occasion.