With all of that being said, though, Nolan seems like the kind of filmmaker who was designed to make a war film at some point in his career.
As such, while it was unexpected when it was announced, the idea of Christopher Nolan doing a war film seems so obvious that Dunkirk feels like it already belongs in his filmography.
Hopefully, the film will be able to live up to the hype surrounding it as well, so that when fans leave the theater in July, they will just be left asking why it took Nolan so long to make Dunkirk in the first place.
Notably, this marks an interesting change-of-pace for Nolan, since he’s for the most part, told all of his films from the perspectives of adult males, usually, with the innocence of childhood and family often playing an integral role in their backgrounds and histories, rather than in their present day lives.