DUNKIRK

Looking for work: "Then he looked wistfully out of the window.  Already he was a prisoner of industrialism.  Large sunflowers stared over the old red wall of the garden opposite, looking in their jolly way down on the women who were hurrying with something for dinner.  The valley was full of corn, brightening in the sun.  Two colliers, among the fields, waved their small white plumes of steam.  Far off on the hills were the woods of Annesley, dark and fascinating. Already his heart went down.  He was being taken into bondage.  His freedom in the beloved home valley was going now"--Sons and Lovers

"He's dead, mate." "Then be bloody careful with him!"--Dunkirk

This afternoon I went to the first Cross-Culture Meetup.  It's for people who've spent over a year of their life outside of Canada, and I've spent about three years in Great Britain.  We met in Dufferin Grove park, and may do a karaoke sometime.

Tonight I saw Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk at the Varsity as a History Meetup event.  I thought a war movie like that would attract an all-male group, but I was the only boy there!  The movie was exciting and realistic, without the cheap tricks Nolan sometimes employs. (Remember in The Dark Knight when Commissioner Gordon got killed, but it turned out he'd faked his own death to protect his family?)

I remember seeing a bit of an earlier movie about Dunkirk at my aunt Alma's house, but finding out that she couldn't bear war movies.  Too grim for her!