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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Mr. Pip, it finds refuge and moral courage in storytelling as a child navigates a society brutalised by conflict. Its imaginative passages deepen, rather than soften, the intimate stakes.
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Why this pick
A child’s perspective anchors this lyrical, unsparing civil-war drama. It shares Mr. Pip’s blend of innocence, imagination and escalating danger, while keeping the emotional focus personal.
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Why this pick
Its young protagonist turns learning into a lifeline amid a community crisis. The warm, humane attention to education, family and resilience echoes Mr. Pip’s faith in stories changing a child’s world.
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Why this pick
Set in Melanesia and filmed with striking natural intimacy, this tragic coming-of-age romance shares Mr. Pip’s sense of an island community pressured by forces beyond individual control.
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Why this pick
Another moving drama about education as dignity and defiance in a post-colonial setting. Its grounded performances and compassionate view of a small community suit Mr. Pip’s human-scale power.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1989, as a Bougainville Civil War on in the province of Autonomous Region of Bougainville—then called North Solomons—in Papua New Guinea, Mr. Watts (Hugh Laurie), the only white man left on the island after a blockade, re-opens the local school. He begins reading the Charles Dickens novel ''Great Expectations'', which transfixes a young girl named Matilda (Xzannjah). She finds comfort in the story of a Victorian orphan, Pip (Eka Darville), when her own world is falling apart. The "Papua New Guinea Defence Force", an army sent to destroy the local rebels, are getting closer. Matilda writes "Pip" in the sand. This simple act leads to terrible consequences when the Redskins suspect Pip to be a rebel leader and demand he be brought before them.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mr. Watts
Pip
Mrs. Watts
