The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense

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Explains how the use of Shepard tones in Dunkirk creates a psychological sense of tension and urgency.

Linked by 37 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including mentalfloss.com, inverse.com, hypothes.is, rozhlas.cz, refresher.sk.