noticed that this is the first of Nolan's movies where the final shot has someone in full frame, facing us directly. All of his previous endings have created a sense of distance with either someone departing the frame (Interstellar, BB, TDK, TDKR), just departed leaving motion in their wake (Inception, Following) or a person turning away from us slash at a side view angle (Prestige, Insomnia, Memento). The original ending of Dunkirk as explained by Nolan and the screenplay as the burning plane would have fallen nicely in the second category, because of Hardy having just left the screen, but we're suddenly pulled back, not pushed away as we're used to, into the completely silent shot of Tommy close up and facing us, although not looking directly at us. This diverges so much from what he's done in the past. We know that Nolan only did it because he found the dailies of Fionn Whitehead intriguing, but was curious about others' thoughts on why else he made the change and how it felt different to you.