Les Miserables
Mikhail Rivera
TREDFOR – EE
10812601
Film Analysis Reflection paper
“All are called to love. This is the vocation of every person.”
In what way was this expressed/articulated or communicated in the film? Explore the depth of the message of the film. In what did the theme challenged you as a person?
The film, Les Miserables, I have to say has a bitter-sweet ending. I would describe the film to be displaying dynamic message as the story did not revolve around one setting, place, or one character such Jean Valjean (Prisoner 24601), Marius Pontmercy, or even Cosette. The film showed an equal importance to the majority of the characters as each of the characters of Jean Valjean (Prisoner 24601), Javert, Frantine, Marius, and Cosette were highlighted in the film. It showed intense not just the poverty and struggles of the lives of Jean Valjean, Fantine, and Cossette who were abused, used, cheated, wronged and taken advantage of but from the setting itself as there is an ongoing revolt between the government and the poor. But despite the many hardships and wrong the main characters faced in the film, still they choose the path of righteousness as many of the characters who were wronged still chose to forgive the people who wronged them and in a way loved thy neighbour.
For the vocation of every person, “All are called to love”, this one was first expressed in the situation where Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) was released from parole of nineteen years of imprisonment by the Prison Guard, Javert (Russel Crowe). Despite of Jean Valjean released from imprisonment, Javert gave him yellow papers meaning that wherever Jean Valjean will go in the country, everyone will he is a former prisoner or an ex-convict. As Jean Valjean went from town to town looking for work and begging people for shelter and food, he is continuously beaten up and rejected until the Bishop of Digne offered him refuge giving him food and a place to sleep in his Parisian. This was the first
TREDFOR – EE
10812601
Film Analysis Reflection paper
“All are called to love. This is the vocation of every person.”
In what way was this expressed/articulated or communicated in the film? Explore the depth of the message of the film. In what did the theme challenged you as a person?
The film, Les Miserables, I have to say has a bitter-sweet ending. I would describe the film to be displaying dynamic message as the story did not revolve around one setting, place, or one character such Jean Valjean (Prisoner 24601), Marius Pontmercy, or even Cosette. The film showed an equal importance to the majority of the characters as each of the characters of Jean Valjean (Prisoner 24601), Javert, Frantine, Marius, and Cosette were highlighted in the film. It showed intense not just the poverty and struggles of the lives of Jean Valjean, Fantine, and Cossette who were abused, used, cheated, wronged and taken advantage of but from the setting itself as there is an ongoing revolt between the government and the poor. But despite the many hardships and wrong the main characters faced in the film, still they choose the path of righteousness as many of the characters who were wronged still chose to forgive the people who wronged them and in a way loved thy neighbour.
For the vocation of every person, “All are called to love”, this one was first expressed in the situation where Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) was released from parole of nineteen years of imprisonment by the Prison Guard, Javert (Russel Crowe). Despite of Jean Valjean released from imprisonment, Javert gave him yellow papers meaning that wherever Jean Valjean will go in the country, everyone will he is a former prisoner or an ex-convict. As Jean Valjean went from town to town looking for work and begging people for shelter and food, he is continuously beaten up and rejected until the Bishop of Digne offered him refuge giving him food and a place to sleep in his Parisian. This was the first