TL; DR
Soldados indianos também estavam presos no Dunquerque. E o Royal Army Corps não estava apenas presente na praia, mas também envolvido no transporte de suprimentos para terrenos que não eram fáceis de alcançar. No entanto, o filme simplesmente não mostrava o exército indiano, assim como eles não mostravam muitos outros (como franceses, holandeses, poloneses, marroquinos, belgas, canadenses) e só mostravam o que acontecia na praia e aqueles cujos caminhos se cruzavam. ocasionalmente, a fim de ajustar o filme no tempo disponível. Portanto, este filme não é historicamente impreciso.
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Mas há alguma prova de que havia soldados indianos presos lá também?
Sim, houve. Pelo que John Broich, que foi consultor de história do filme, escreveu em artigo ,
There were also four companies of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps on those beaches. Observers said they were particularly cool under fire and well-organized during the retreat. They weren’t large in number, maybe a few hundred among hundreds of thousands, but their appearance in the film would have provided a good reminder of how utterly central the role of the Indian Army was in the war. Their service meant the difference between victory and defeat. In fact, while Britain and other allies were licking their wounds after Dunkirk, the Indian Army picked up the slack in North Africa and the Middle East.
Como mencionado acima, havia quatro empresas do Corpo de Serviço do Exército Real da Índia presentes.
Era possível que os indianos não fizessem parte desse evento?
Sim, eles fizeram parte do evento. De O artigo indiano lógico ,
When the Allies fled across Belgium to the northern French port of Dunkirk, they were accompanied by several Indian soldiers. Not many factual sources exist to give a definite number to the number of Indians who fled to Dunkirk in 1940.
De The Guardian Article ,
To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were not only on the beach, but tasked with transporting supplies over terrain that was inaccessible for the British Expeditionary Force’s motorised transport companies. It also ignores the fact that by 1938, lascars – mostly from South Asia and East Africa – counted for one of four crewmen on British merchant vessels, and thus participated in large numbers in the evacuation.
But Nolan’s erasures are not limited to the British. The French army deployed at Dunkirk included soldiers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and other colonies, and in substantial numbers. Some non-white faces are visible in one crowd scene, but that’s it. The film forgets the racialised pecking order that determined life and death for both British and French colonial troops at Dunkirk and after it.
No site de Dunkirk1940.org ,
Only a few weeks later, the Indian transport companies, along with the rest of the Allied forces, were ordered towards the coast. Boulogne and Calais, despite heroic resistance, were captured by German forces. The only way to save the BEF1 and their support, including the Mule Companies, was to evacuate them from Dunkirk.
On 24 May 1940 when approaching Dunkerque, Jemadar Maula Dad Khan showed magnificent courage, coolness and decision. When his troop was shelled from the ground and bombed from the air by the enemy he promptly reorganised his men and animals, got them off the road and under cover under extremely difficult conditions. It was due to this initiative and the confidence he inspired that it was possible to extricate his troop without loss in men or animals.'
Mudando para sua próxima pergunta,
ou filme apenas ignorou o fato?
Como Christopher Nolan disse, este filme foi sobre sobrevivência, não sobre a política desse evento. De sua entrevista ,
“We don’t have generals in rooms pushing things around on maps. We don’t see Churchill. We barely glimpse the enemy.
“It’s a survival story. I wanted to go through the experience with the characters.”
Neste artigo da BBC ,
Historian Joshua Levine, who is also the film's historical consultant, told me that Dunkirk was a work of fiction and "it isn't a film's job to tell the full story of Dunkirk... and nor, in the time available, could it even try to do so".
"This film focuses on a few protagonists whose paths cross occasionally, each one of whom experiences just a tiny corner of the whole story. As Hilary Mantel says about historical fiction, 'The man who is fighting can't see over the hill, out of the trench.' What I'd love to see, though, is an Indian film about Dunkirk, or WW2 generally, and I sincerely hope Indian filmmakers are working on it."
Então, parece que eles simplesmente não pensaram que se encaixaria na história do filme que eles estavam tentando contar.
1. BEF: Força Expedicionária Britânica