I had hoped to finish strong; have something really profound to say for this last one, or maybe even something to draw all of my other posts together, but no inspirations have come to mind, so instead, I'm going to share another person's blog post about the movie Dunkirk that I saw last night...
There are many war movies out there, but Dunkirk is different. It speaks to the raw emotions and uncertainties of each moment with masterfully orchestrated suspense, and dialogue that is eloquent in its sparsity. For a few hours we get an omnipotent sense of the character's intertwining lives - faces are put to the soldiers, pilots, officers, and civilians while keeping a sense of their anonymity in the greater conflict. Viewers are given very little insight into the backgrounds of these ordinary people. The confusion and enormity of the war is palpable.
Yet I couldn't help reflecting that none of them were anonymous to God.
Really there are many levels on which I think this movie could be approached, the following blog post speaks to just one of them...
