Top Billed Cast: Fion Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance
The genre of the film Dunkirk is War, this is first shown through the green army costumes the soldiers are wearing; along with their guns and helmets. The lack of a musical soundtrack with only diegetic ambient sound playing a realistically haunting atmosphere is present immediately. The realism of the scene with a lack of CGI which gets across that exact situations like the one presented to us happened in the previous world wars in the 20th century.
The overall tone of the opening sequence is dark and haunting, this tonality is 'fired' towards us through the use of diegetic pleonastic sound effects of gunshots. The handheld camera positioning implies and raw feeling to the scene which makes the audience feel like they are running with the soldier and are almost with him. The tone never gets lighter as we are also shown the soldier doesn't know how to use his gun properly which shows how inexperienced he is and the unlikelihood of escaping alive.
The audience are especially engaged when the young man is jumping over the wall towards the french who are firing at him whilst also being fired at from behind, this shows that in war you can't trust anyone truly anyone completely because any wrong assumptions can cause unnecessary deaths. It also causes the audience to worry about the young man because he is incapable and is relying on others to much to get out of sticky situations but because he is so young and naive the audience want to root for him since he probably represents what would happen if many teenagers nowadays had to fight in the war.
The character of the young man is presented us of course being naive and incompetent in battle yet he is shown to have good survival instincts because he jumped over the wall and a gate and escaped barrage of bullets so yet that can't be all down to luck so he has good survival skills.
Based on the opening sequence presented I definitely think the narrative will follow the young man presented to us and show us what happens to him. I do think this opening sequence was successful to a great extent at introducing us the tone and atmosphere of a realistic yet dark war setting, the sound work of the ambient and pleonastic sounds greatly did this and were they key details that made this sequence so captivating for all.
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