So many noble souls

Noemie 2022-03-22 09:01:19

A few years ago, I watched the 2004 movie "The Phantom of the Opera" directed by Joe Schumacher. I was immediately impressed by it. I felt that the music was great and the story atmosphere was shocking, so I did not hesitate to buy the musical version of "The Phantom of the Opera". CD, came into contact with this musical. Nowadays, when the movie version of "Les Miserables" is released, I am also full of expectations. For such a musical film adaptation, different audiences feel different, the focus of attention and the focus of expression are more different, so in With this gap in perception and background, you will see so many emotional quarrel theories. In my opinion, as a musical with a certain threshold, a more popular film adaptation is a good intermediate stage. Just like watching the movie version of "Les Miserables", I immediately started to review several versions. Compared with the "Phantom of the Opera", "Les Miserables" undoubtedly has a larger structure and deeper level in the search of musicals. After watching the movie, I can't help but sigh that France, in the world of Hugo, had so many noble souls that year!

Yes, "soul", "noble soul", this is my deep feeling in this film. Except for some weird Denadier and his wife, many characters in the film show the noble side of soul that is shocking and moving. This is a movie full of emotion and soul shock. Its story background is very depressing and cold, and its story atmosphere is filled with tragedy. However, throughout the process, it has set off one climax after another with the glory of human nature, and finally gives people an uplifting emotion. Jean Valjean, a determined man, in order to survive and his relatives, to bear the humiliation for 19 years, in exchange for the shame of a life-long sinner, while sliding into the abyss of cynicism, the priest’s tolerance gave him the power of self-salvation, Fantine’s The heavy trust brought him the courage and responsibility to take up again after his exile. Fantine doesn’t have many roles in the film, but he is set by the director to appear quickly, accumulate emotions quickly, and explode shocking power quickly, a kind of helplessness struggling in the storm of fate, and a mother who is still in despair. The unforgettable affection of the beloved daughter, this explosive performance and expression shocked the audience and also shocked Jean Agen, and echoed at the end of the film, which is impressive. No wonder it brought Hathaway a golden figure. .

Jean Valjean and Javert can be described as lifelong enemies, but it is also the entanglement of this life that allows them to influence each other. Javert is a complicated character who feels single and firm in himself, but contradictory in reality, and because of his complexity, he is real. In fact, in a turbulent society, interpersonal relationships and cognition become more complicated. Javert insists that he is enforcing the law and justice, and that the law is the law. Regardless of whether your motive for stealing is for greed or saving lives, from his values Look, Denadier who stole the body of a revolutionary and Jean Valjean who stole bread for the lives of his relatives are the same kind of people. However, the reality of society is far from simple, so we have a complex sentiment towards someone as complicated as Javert. He does punish the wicked in strict law enforcement, and he unconsciously acts as a tiger, just as he often treats law enforcement officers in real life. Facing contradictory public opinion. Javert watched as Jean Ajean escaped his pursuit, and watched his own values ​​collapse in the process, which led to the collapse of his own life. At this turning point, the film feels that it is not strong enough, and some sudden, I want to enjoy the original musical or literary original to have a more real feeling. To me, contradictory characters like Javert are often more charming. His life has a sense of tragedy as a martyr. From today’s "advanced" point of view, he is a guardian of the old forces and looks cold. Rigid, defending the values ​​of self-righteousness. Often, the determination of a good person to do good is respectable, and the determination of a wicked person to do evil is contemptuous but logically not strange. The saddest thing is someone like Javert, who is not an absolute evil by nature, and he is not an intentional evil. But it ended up in a "harmful to one's own benefit". And such a role can be ridiculously portrayed, or it can be very tragic. From the original work to the opera to the movie I see today, what I see is a noble tragedy, Javert and Jean Valjean complement each other, two The fate of the characters of the class shows their helplessness and greatness.

I really like the end of the movie. Jean Valjean’s life is coming to an end, leaving his adopted daughter and lover to continue their beautiful life, while he and Fantine are walking towards the singing crowd. In those years, faced with life’s difficulties and even despair, different people made different choices, including Marius and others who used violent confrontations. In the extreme confrontation, the human nature was full of manifestations, and the ugly attitude of the Denadier couple. It is fully displayed, but we see more of the noble souls, so that the ugliness is the aftermath that can be ignored. In the film, Ai Penny is a character that I particularly feel sorry for, and it is also a character I think is more tragic. Her life is not bad or not. She has no noble background and no lofty ideals. She just wants to love someone. But never get the desired response. She has genuine kindness, but she has a pair of despicable parents. The scene of helpless singing in the heavy rain is more impressive to me than Fantine's cry before death, who at least has a daughter who can entrust her life, she is more like It is the silent majority in the suffering society.

Excellent artistic performance always ends a story, whether comedy or tragedy, but leaves a continuation of "life" in your mind, that is, an impression. "Les Miserables" is an excellent artistic presentation for me. So many noble souls have been excavated from the miserable world. Despite the cost of so many lives, they all exist forever at the end of the film in an exciting form of artistic expression, making you feel that there is still hope in the tragic world, and there is still joy after the tragedy. Although it is always difficult to reproduce the stage effect perfectly in this kind of film form, the film version of "Les Miserables" can already reflect enough artistic power to infect the emotions of the audience. Some people try to get in touch with the stage and literature from which the film originated.

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Les Misérables quotes

  • Army Officer: Who's there?

    Enjolras: French revolution.

    Army Officer: [commands the officers] Fire.

  • Gillenormad: Marius.

    Marius: Grandfather.

    Gillenormad: Have you any idea of the shame you bring on our family? An utter disgrace.