Steve McQueen’s Blitz does a solid job of showing other sides of the Second World War
As images of German bombs raining down on London in 1940 take over the movie screen, eerily whistling through the air, giving way to what seem like images of static, you can’t help but think about the wars unfolding right now in Gaza and Ukraine. Director Steve McQueen’s latest film,, meaning “lightning war” – referring to the Nazi military’s method of offensive warfare, as the opening credits tell us.
However, when an air raid siren goes off, and Rita rushes George and her father to a nearby underground tube station, the authorities keep the doors locked. The people manage to get the gates opened, and scramble for shelter. Rattled by that experience, Rita returns home and makes the difficult decision to send George off by train to the countryside to keep him safe – as other mothers are doing.
In a Q&A following an advance screening, McQueen talked about how he’d come across an image of a small Black boy standing with a large suitcase on a train platform, while researching his anthology film. Acutely aware of London’s war-history, he’d been thinking since the 2000s about making a movie about the period of the Second World War. The photograph gave him a way to situate the project. Further research led him to other untold stories of war.
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