Personal Response on Oliver Film

659 Words3 Pages
Title - Oliver! Director - Carol Reed Text Type - Visual (film) From watching the film Oliver! I noticed that every character is very significant to the plot. Oliver’s character portrayed innocence and how someone so little and quiet could become a criminal - a pick-pocketer. But the character I thought was most significant was Nancy. Not only was Nancy a motherhood figure to Oliver, but she was also the most important character in the development of Oliver’s role, she allowed us to get to know a different Oliver. At the start of the film we see that Oliver is a courageous orphan that is not afraid of anything ‘please sir, can I have some more’, but when he meets Nancy, we see a new side of Oliver, his loving side, which is portrayed with the song ‘I’d Do Anything’. The songs ends with Oliver singing to Nancy, telling her that he would do anything for her - or as I understood, he was singing in the hopes of having someone he could do anything for, someone like her, a kind motherly person whom he seeks. It was only Oliver’s hope to have a motherly figure to be with him forever and not reality. You can tell that Oliver doubted his luck that something so good could be possible in his life when Nancy was killed. When Bill Sykes was murdering Nancy, you could see Oliver’s reaction - he was horrified, but was not crying, as if he expected something like that to happen. In his heart, Oliver knew that he could not be with Nancy and is why he didn’t connect to her as much as he could’ve. Nancy was a really significant character that opened up Oliver to hope and love and of course with her death, she taught him that even when something tragic does happen, you need to keep going, which he did and found a happy ending with a foster family. Another film I can relate this to is the Wizard of Oz, because it reminded me of the same values - Dorothy was a loving figure to the

More about Personal Response on Oliver Film

Open Document