Les Miserables

Arden 2022-03-25 09:01:15

When I saw the last film, my favorite person was not Jean Valjean or Cosette, but Javert. He was arrogant and could not be labeled as good or bad, but he was just, firm and paranoid about what he believed in his heart.

"I'm here to ask you to fire me and sue me for defamation" Confess your right or wrong without justifying it.

"I hate you, I envy your rights, and in revenge, I slandered you" without the slightest shyness, as if the accusation was being made against someone other than yourself.

Javert's eyes are very scary and the same actor as Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean, Geoffrey Rush, when he watched Pirates of the Caribbean, he felt that part of the actor's high standard should be reflected in all your expressions, even if the corners of your mouth twitched. In order to interpret the characters, let the audience forget about the actors themselves. The boundaries between you and the characters are blurred, you can't see clearly, you disappear, you become the characters themselves without obvious traces of force, you are him, a farmer, a pirate, a father, a policeman . In Les Miserables, everything that Javert is eyeing seems to be unable to escape. You spend your whole life catching the sins he thinks, you can wait or resist, but there is no forgiveness. Later, in people's analysis of Javert's characters, I found a very vivid word: the stubborn of justice. Of course, the stubborn people were also moved later when faced with Jean Valjean.

Another scene that impressed me was the scene where the person who took the blame for Jean Valjean (sorry for forgetting the name) was tried in court. It reminds me of a dialogue in 1984 "Is Big Brother a being like me?" "No, you don't exist." When all the people disproven, "Of course he is Jean Valjean, we are tied on a chain Five years." ... When the last witness testified, he looked at the person who was not Jean Valjean and said, "Yes, he is Jean Valjean." The camera pans to the face of the scapegoat, and he looks like I was also wondering, "Am I really Jean Valjean? Is the person who was sentenced to serving nearly 20 years for stealing bread really me?" With a criminal record, I always ask myself, is this human nature? Yes or not, he is not a universal human nature. People advance from the natural realm to the utilitarian realm. Most people stop here, and our protagonist is a person who has completed the realm of profit and the realm of morality after being redeemed by the godfather's kindness. One of the few that hardly exists in our society today, or none of us are the godfather with enough kindness and patience to redeem any Jean Valjean that could be better.

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Les Misérables quotes

  • Jean Valjean: [Valjean is being taken away] This is right, my dear. I stole something, I did. I stole happiness with you. I don't mind paying.

  • Javert: I've tried to live my life without breaking a single rule...

    [takes Valjean's shackles off, pushes him to the ground and puts them on himself]

    Javert: You're free.