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French provided - ot , as in Mary-ot and Philip-ot , whence the surnames Marriott and Philpott ; and -in or -on , which could turn Mary to Marion, Alice to Alison, Dick to Dickon (whence Dickens ), and Rob to Robin (whence Robbins and Robinson ).
After the convict overture, we learn that Finn--who has a gift for drawing and painting--lives with his sister Maggie (Kim Dickens) and brother-in-law Joe (Chris Cooper) in a ramshackle house by the gulf.
Like Dickens' Abel Magwitch, Jack Maggs has been exiled to the Australian backwaters.
Through his camera, the external world becomes transfigured by emotion, so that everything--even what might not be literally true--seems real . What better director to film a Dickens novel?
The year is 1837--that of Victoria's accession--but we get a sense not of empire or of politely crumpeting tearooms but of decay and disease, of the more-Dickensian-than-Dickens underside of rapid industrialization and urban growth.