Surrealist convention example = Unexplained Jumps in time/ and or in space. –

Film Example: Dunkirk.

Within the non-linear construction of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkrik’, 2017, we can see that through jumps in and back through time and different courses of events, how characters change in personality and manner. An example of such can be seen with Cillian Murphy’s character of playing an Officer in the evacuation at Dunkirk. First seeing him as a frightened, shell-shocked soldier found on the bow of a sinking ship we perceive him as this frail figure, it isn’t until a later scene following a separate narrative, it shows him, prior to the ship sinking, being in more of a self-contained manner, commanding a group of men. From this we are able to understand how he came to be like this.