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‘Blitz’ Compellingly Complicates the Wartime Genre

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Summary
Nutrition label

65% Informative

The film follows a mother and her son, George , as they endure a few days of the London Blitz .

Blitz is neither a feel-good movie about wartime London nor unrelentingly bleak.

The film treads a meandering line, traversing between Spielbergian adventure marred by violence, Dickensian child-in-peril squalidness and social survey.

Though staggering in its technical dimensions, McQueen ’s film is more than mere war-is-hell spectacle.

Blitz is guided, and animated, by a deep and abiding humanism.

McQueen has made a more than worthy entry to the canon of WWII films: grim and dazzling, shrewd in its balance of starkness and sentiment.

VR Score

73

Informative language

76

Neutral language

30

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

long-living

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

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