Title: This is not Dickens - I don't know what it is
Product review: Where to start??? The acting is poor, the casting is absurd, the dialogue is bland, and inaccuracies abound. This is not Dickens' great novel, but a soap opera loosely (very loosely) based on the novel. Just for starters, Miss Haversham is advertising for a boy even before Magwitch (the convict) is apprehended. The whole point of the novel is that Pip is selected for Great Expectations because of his kindness to Magwitch. He is destined for Estella, Magwitch's daughter, yet this all seems to be already in place. The sequence of events just does not compute. Did the director even read the novel? I will be going back to David Lean's superb 1946 versionGreat Expectations (The Criterion Collection)just to get the bad taste of this production out of my mouth.
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