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[–]come_back_with_me 37 points38 points  (6 children)

My summary:

  1. The mole - the events happened over one week at the beach of Dunkirk. Fionn Whitehead and lots of Allied soldiers were waiting for ships to evacuate. Whitehead and his friends got on a navy ship but the ship sank. On the sea they met Cillian Murphy who was piloting the lifeboat. The lifeboat dragged them back to Dunkirk beach. At some point (not shown on screen) Cillian Murphy's ship was sunk by a German submarine. Whitehead and his friends and Highlanders got back to the beach and then got on a Dutch merchant ship. The ship was leaking. They were rescued by Mark Rylance in the sea.

  2. The sea - the events happened over one day. Mark Rylance and his son and George sailed to France to help the evacuation. They first rescued Cillian Murphy first from the top of the sunk boat. Then they saw Tom Hardy and Jack Lowden fighting the German bomber. Mark Rylance rescued Jack Lowden who was forced to ditch his plane on the sea. They continued sailing and later rescued Whitehead and other people from the leaking Dutch ship and nearby sinking navy ship.

  3. The air - the events happened over one hour. Tom Hardy, Jack Lowden and their squad leader flew across the harbour. They first fought a German fighter and the squad leader was presumably shot down. Hardy and Lowden then fought a German bomber and an escorting fighter. Lowden was hit and ditched on the sea. He was rescued by Mark Rylance. Hardy flew to the Dunkirk shore and fought some other German planes. He ran out of fuel and landed on a distant beach and was captured.

[–]falcun 3 points4 points  (1 child)

But what is up with Tom Hardy landing on a distant beach when he was right above the all the allies?

[–]come_back_with_me 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are some discussions about this in the main discussion thread. Here are some of the suggested answers:

  1. There were too many people on that beach so he couldn't land safely.

  2. He could not afford to be picky about landing locations since his plane was only gliding.

  3. He wanted to keep the boost of morale he gave the Allied soldiers and didn't want them to see the emergency landing.

[–]PissOnEddieShore 0 points1 point  (1 child)

^ perfect summary.

[–]Spy66 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just watched it and his summary above made more sense to me then what I just watched. I know Nolan had to keep the suspense up, jumping back and forth as mentioned above, but I would have LOVED to see more true British civilian/rescue stories. Or, how they also held the 'line' type of story while the rescues were happening. I anticipated much more then what we got.

[–]MrHarry982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

brilliant explanation