This is probably the second film in a special format I've seen other than The Sound of Music. The dance and musical singing take up most of the time, but the plot also unfolds in it. The director seems to deliberately disguise the misery of the content in such a joyous way that it does sometimes ignore the suffering of the protagonist. But one thing I think about beyond Oliver's suffering is identity. Those thieves have been raised since childhood, they are still thieves when they grow up, and the bad guys are getting worse and worse. The not-so-bad Nancy had a tragic end. Fagin had the slightest idea of rehabilitating and eventually went back to his old business. Their identities have never changed. But Oliver, he is different. His identity is a child of a wealthy family. Although he suffered at first, he also returned to his original identity by accident. If Oliver was not his niece's child, it is doubtful whether the old gentleman would go to great lengths to find and rescue Oliver. This alone makes me feel that there is a lack of thought content later, but it does not hinder his overall structure. Two large-scale songs and dances, the extreme contrast between the poor and the rich, the gap between the rich and the poor under capitalism, and the suffering of the people at the bottom. Each piece is thought-provoking, this cannibalistic bloody capital.
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