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Dunkirk, The Post, and Munich Reviews
from The Fixer (Bronx Jonny) · #86
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4 minThey critique Dunkirk's Christopher Nolan style and a scene of a soldier killing a boy, then discuss The Post's Spielberg politics and a grim scene from Munich.
- 42:44Tim on Dunkirk: can't support that shit.
- 42:56He lists the movies he actually saw: The Post, Phantom Thread, and Get Out.
- 43:11People search for deeper meaning in movies when sometimes it's just a movie.
- 43:34Dunkirk felt like everything Christopher Nolan does—he acts like everything's Batman.
- 43:58The plot of Dunkirk described: soldiers get picked up, then cut to getting rescued, then a kid gets crippled.
- 44:21Cillian Murphy's character goes shell-shocked and won't go back to the beach to get troops.
- 44:49Murphy's character shoots a kid down the steps, then feels bad about it.
- 45:32The Post is nominated for things—Spielberg made a political campaign film about the Pentagon Papers.
- 45:58Munich: Spielberg's war movie where they shoot a woman in a pit because she poisoned a spy with a kiss.
DunkirkChristopher NolanGet OutThe PostPentagon PapersSteven SpielbergMunich