Les Miserables **spoilers in thread**
 

Who's watched it? I watched a few concert versions, but not the full Broadway musical... and, I watched the movie musical last night! Pity they rushed it so much, but then again it is a very lengthy stage show, and movies don't have intermission.

I appreciate that they used the movie medium to make it super ugly and gritty, to really show the life of The Miserable, economically underprivileged people, unemployed single mothers, ex-convicts, student protestors, and/or unrequited lovers.

One big criticism of the story that I've heard, was how it eventually becomes Les Coincidences. I prefer to call it a karmacopia :D I mean, the main characters get decades of breaks between confrontations. However, what was more of the centerpiece to me, was how both Jean Valjean and Javert had their sincere understanding of the capital-g God that was yet very very different and conflicting with one another.

:smile: I have seen the stage version twice.its excellent we had 1or 2 breaks in it as it is long.i have not seen the cinema version i prefer the stage one that i saw.


Namaste

Great Musical.

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes