Unfortunately, reality is not a substitute for an impassioned song. The history of France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a constant revolution, restoration, revolution, suppression, and blood flow. Just like the voice of the child in the film:
We killed the king back then,
we were too anxious to change the world, and
now there is a new king,
not much better than before.
This land once fought for freedom,
but now we are grabbing bread,
To ask what equality is, equality is
only in the face of death.
I thought the boy had insight into the world, but when he turned his head, he shouted "Long live France" and rushed at the soldier's gun. It's sad to see, what kind of revolution does an older kid know about revolution.
The revolutionaries in the film are a group of aristocratic children who want to put a red flag on the head of Paris, plus the urban poor who have nothing to do and are idle, and they also get mixed in with Jean Valjean just to "save the angry young son-in-law." The hit soy sauce molecule. The final result, of course, is to become an unresponsive lone army, a miserable failure. Then the Empire Republic was tossed many times, and he watched his peers become new ghosts, and the city changed the banner of the king, until the Paris Commune was suppressed, and the French Third Republic was considered safe for a few years. At the end of the film, the scene where the whole people cheered the victory of the revolution on the square is not the end at all, but the beginning of another tragedy.
So this film is not a revolutionary historical theme educational film, but a musically great love costume gunfight. The French version of Gone with the Wind can be used as the national anthem with majestic lyrics and music. But in the end it was the romantic blood revolution in the eyes of literary artists. If you want to watch the political debate, go to "Lincoln."
I don't know what the French think about watching this movie. How do they view the turmoil in the history of their country for a hundred years. Social injustice has brought dissatisfaction and violence, but violence always brings more violence, while freedom and equality are far away. After a hundred years of revolution, people finally discovered a way for different classes to coexist peacefully. It is not that the majority abolish the minority or one class to destroy another, but to protect all people, including your opponents. Just like what the priest did to Jean Valjean, and what Jean Valjean did to the world again, give up hatred and love your enemy, because you just think that each other is an enemy. Although this is hypocritical, naive and futile in the eyes of revolutionaries, because if the enemy does not love you, what is the use of loving the enemy. When at the end Russell wondered why he didn’t kill me, why, why if it’s not love me, what’s sad, and finally collapsed and jumped into the river, when the children and women fell under the guns of soldiers and the revolutionaries ended up holding the beauties and living in the manor. Here, we know that this is a tragic cold joke, the bloodstains will eventually become sighs in the history books, and the war hymns will eventually only be sung in the movies. A simple answer, but paid the price of countless blood.
Reading from 1789 to 1871, looking at this tragic world, "Do you hear the people sing?" 》
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