Blitz
A portrait of London in 1940, as the German’s attempted to bomb the city into submission, Steve McQueen’s Blitz is in many ways a very familiar war movie, a subversive ruse by McQueen. Whether his gambit works is another question. Superficially it’s a fine story, about a young lad being evacuated from the East End and sent off to safety out in the countryside, as thousands of children were during the Second World War. Except George never makes it to his billet. Instead, jumping from the train en route, he starts making his way back towards home and his mother, Rita, having adventures and meeting characters who are Dickens characters in a 1940s … Read more