Great Expectations

Year: 1946

Grade: B-

Country: UK

Director: Lean

Review

the story is good, but that was all that really got me excited. there were some nice shots here and there, the acting was good, but not great. to me the film felt like a sort of cross between citizen kane and the graduate, though not as good as either. it didn’t have the technical strength that citizen kane does and it didn’t have the emotion that the graduate does. it took me a while to get into pip’s character…especially his older incarnation. some of the storytelling was slow and didn’t seem to advance the characters or their relationships very well, but that’s just me nitpicking. it’s a good coming of age story and the characters that surround pip are interesting and useful, but i didn’t feel the love in this one. i felt for the convict character, but the other relationships didn’t particularly resonate with me.