Supercomposer Hans Zimmer used the Shepard tone extensively in the Dunkirk score and it is also found in several other Nolan films.
Enter the Shepard tone, an auditory illusion consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
This was very much by design, as the film was written and scored so that it would be intense essentially ad infinitum.
Dunkirk is perhaps unprecedented in how it feels intense from start to finish.
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