Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Sept 12, 2019 13:04:33 GMT
Has anyone else seen Twist (2003)? It's a Canadian modern twist on Dickens' Oliver Twist, set in the hustler district of modern-day Toronto. I'll let the IMDB synopsis explain it for you:
A gay re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. Updated to current times, moved out of the poor house and onto the streets, the tale is told from the point of Dickens' character, Artful Dodger--now Dodge. The prosaically beautiful Oliver falls into the hands of down-and-out young men. Dodge takes the young man under his wing and instructs him in the unforgiving arts of drug abuse and prostitution. As Oliver's innocence dissolves, both young men confront inner and outer demons and, strangely, it is Dodge who finds he cannot escape his past.
I saw it many years ago. I guess I liked it, it was nothing extraordinary, just interesting. Not your usual Dickens tale!
A gay re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. Updated to current times, moved out of the poor house and onto the streets, the tale is told from the point of Dickens' character, Artful Dodger--now Dodge. The prosaically beautiful Oliver falls into the hands of down-and-out young men. Dodge takes the young man under his wing and instructs him in the unforgiving arts of drug abuse and prostitution. As Oliver's innocence dissolves, both young men confront inner and outer demons and, strangely, it is Dodge who finds he cannot escape his past.
I saw it many years ago. I guess I liked it, it was nothing extraordinary, just interesting. Not your usual Dickens tale!