Scrapper (2023) Review

Having to deal with the death of her mother, 12 year old Georgie has been living alone in her London flat and covering it up but when her father Jason arrives everything is about to change.

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Scrapper is an emotional journey through grief in a child who attempts to pretend everything is alright. Georgie builds a tougher character for the outside world and tries to show that it doesn’t bother her and that she is absolutely fine. However we get to see the side of her at home alone, the structure she built in her mother’s old room and watching the old videos on her phone.

With only one friend in Ali, who is a very good friend to her it! Battling to make money by stealing bikes and keeping a secret of her Uncle living with her. Although let’s face it most people seemed to know that she was living alone.

Jason turns up and says that he has actually her father and that her mother did not want him around, they were very young when Georgie was born and quite frankly he just didn’t step up to be responsible. Although now he has turned up he does actually begin to make an effort and try. He still feels so young as well though, working abroad in Ibiza just makes him come across as a rather party lifestyle.

The scenes of them together is something that you cannot help but feel emotional with as it is all new for them both and we can really get that they will actually grow up together, help each other and quite frankly both mess things up as well.

Lola Campbell delivers a truly outstanding debut film role and carries the film very very well. Seriously it is an impressive performance from the young actress and really sets everything up so nicely to see what she goes on to do next. Harris Dickinson then worked so well with Campbell and created a very good relationship that I was actually left wanting to see more of in all honesty.

At times it made me think of A Monster Calls and the way that grief was dealt with in that film and while this is not on that scale, it did raise some interesting ideas behind a child dealing with grief. Let’s face it as adults we don’t even know how to deal with it either let alone young children, therefore I thought this was a lovely little film to help highlight those stages.