Steve McQueen's new World War II film, Blitz 2024 , is very different in methodology from Steve McQueen's last World War II film, the thoroughly pedantic documentary Occupied City, released in February, but there are similarities too. Once again, we look at a European metropolis haunted by the specter of fascism. Once again, the filmmaker's raw material consists of everyday homes, streets, and lives. Part of McQueen's ongoing project is to find subtly, or radically different, ways of revisiting history and images that have become familiar (if not outright banal) over time. Here he has set out to film wartime London life in a way that has never been done before, expanding the narrow scope and palette of the British period drama. All of this is seen in the prologue, which first shows a coil of a fire hose being aimed at a burning East End block, then switches to a quasi-abstract image that appears to be from the perspective of a bomb falling from the sky, or a bomber flyi...