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Oliver! (1968)

★ 7.0 · 478 ratings on TMDB

Much much more than a musical!

Oliver! poster★ 7.0

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

DirectorCarol Reed
CastHarry Secombe, Hylda Baker, Jack Wild, Joseph O'Conor, Mark Lester, Megs Jenkins
GenresDrama, Family
The emergence reading

Oliver! keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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