This war movie is quite different. It shows things about the London Blitz that haven't been done on screen. A unique approach to a WW2 movie.
Firstly there are the not often shown perspectives of a mother and her young boy. The destruction tends to focus more on aftermath rather than the direct moment of the bombing. Interesting scenes showing life in the shelters and the underground. Didn't know about the flood. Towards the end it gets quite surrealistic but not too out of hand. The dance hall followed by the pilfering from bodies is macabre.
There is the very 2024 added angle of racial discrimination against the mixed race child and interracial romance that is integrated into the story although some times it can be preachy at times especially the scene in the shelter. The villains shown in this movie are the evil racist Londoners rather than the Nazis.
Saoirse Ronan looks quite beautiful in the 40s get up although strangely they made her eyebrows too dark for her hair. She does a good cockney accent too. The child actor is alright but his face is not that expressive. He has to carry a lot of the show.
I wasn't bored at all because of the unique perspectives and never before portrayed scenarios of WW2.
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