Steve McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart is a boy’s own adventure
Blitz review: Saoirse Ronan has little to work with in Steve McQueen’s absorbing but crowded war-time drama
McQueen’s extensively researched script alights on racism and looting, but at heart it’s a boy’s own adventure, replete with ragamuffins and Dickensian villains. It’s 1940, and George , a boy of mixed ethnicity, is being evacuated to the countryside. At Paddington station he rages against his mother, Rita . “I hate you,” he tells her, a tirade that pricks at his conscience and inspires him to jump off the train mid-journey.
The characters feel undercooked against this textured backdrop. Ronan has little to work with; Harris Dickinson, playing a young warden with a soft spot for Rita, has even less to go on. These thin sketches might well have benefited from the space afforded Occupied City and the Small Axe series.
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