S Reignite

                                                                'What a fine thing capital punishment is' – Fagin Before Rita Ora was flouting lockdown rules by having a birthday party and flying to Egypt, she was out filming Twist , with permission I assume.  The modern day adaption of novel Oliver Twist overuses camera tricks and roof jumping and brings nothing of value to Dickens’ classic. Oliver, called Twist by friends, has lived on the streets for a large part of his life. When trying to escape from his latest run in with the police, he meets fellow rascals Batesey and Dodge who invite him to join their criminal family. The age of Twist and his newfound friends is ambiguous. They look like twenty-year-olds and behave like teenagers. Along with “The Charmer”, Red, Batesey and Dodge are the oldest children in Fagin’...

‘that what the Head had left undone and could not do, the Heart may have been doing silently.’ Mr Gardgrind. As someone who is aspiring to be a bookworm, I felt that I can’t hold that title without reading a book by renowned British author Charles Dickens. Unable to find one of his more popular books I stumbled upon Hard Times and choose to read it was presented in the blurb as a ‘celebration of the power of the imagination.’. The story starts out with an introduction to the Gradgrind family and how Mr Gradgrind teaches his children and students at the local school, in the interesting city of Coketown, the importance of ‘facts’, an understanding that Cecilia Jupe or Sissy, doesn’t seem to grasp so after an unfortunate event with her father, Mr Gardgind takes Sissy into his home to educate her and giver her a better future in life. Although at this point in the book the direction of the story seems clear, at almost most two hundred pages in I became more unsure what the p...