First, when the priest gave the silver candlestick to Jean Valjean, he said that a person lives to give, not to take. I hope you can do the same in your future life. Although it was a very bland sentence, Jean Valjean understood the true meaning contained in it, and it became the footnote of all his redemption. Later he asked Cosette and Marius to keep the pair of silver candlesticks forever, because although they were only silver, they were priceless to him, and he hoped to pass on the spirit of devotion. Second, unlike the 2012 version, this version of Jean Valjean is from Cosette. He has never owned or tasted love, but he would rather sacrifice his life to save the man Cosette loves for love. The choice that ordinary people can't make makes this love even thicker. Before deciding to complete them and go to a foreign land alone, Jean Valjean said to Marius, what is there in life other than love? Please cherish her as I cherish her. Love is the magic weapon for overcoming all difficulties, and it is because of love that Jean Valjean can make great self-sacrifice. Third, this edition explains Javert's origin, his mother was a prostitute and his father was a torturer. However, Javert still had no sympathy for the bottom of the society. He took the law to catch you, not me, as a catchphrase. Under this institutional arrangement, it is tyranny that makes society run, and the "legal" violence that maintains tyranny. Individuals only need to obey, not humanity. Although Javert came from the bottom, the system has shaped him into a man who only knows A cold-blooded machine that carries out orders, he does not understand that there is a law older than law, and that is conscience and morality. For a man like Javert, it is never possible to defeat him physically, he can only be defeated mentally and destroyed in spirit, and that is why Jean Valjean let him go. Javert finally realized at the last moment that the order he once thought was indestructible was but quicksand, and that a world without love is nothing. The collapse of belief is fatal. He is like a walking dead. Whether he chooses to end his life or not is meaningless to him. The classic is that every time you watch it, you get something, so you never get tired of watching it.
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