MOVIE ANALYSIS

MOVIE ANALYSIS

Title: LES MISERABLES

Genre: MUSICAL, EPIC NOVEL, HISTORICAL FICTION

Characters: Hugh Jackman -stars as Jean Valjean, a Frenchman released from Toulon prison after      19 years of imprisonment for stealing bread and failed attempts at escaping from the prison.

Russell Crowe -stars as Javert, a police inspector dedicating his life to imprisoning Valjean once again.

 Anne Hathaway -plays Fantine. Fantine is a struggling factory worker and mother of an illegitimate child.

 Amanda Seyfried -plays Cosette.  Cosette, who is kept by the Thénardiers until Valjean buys her from them.

 Isabelle Allen -plays the young Cosette

Eddie Redmayne -plays Marius Pontmercy, a student revolutionary who is friends with the Thenardiers' daughter, Éponine, but falls in love with Cosette.

Daniel Huttlestone -plays Gavroche, a streetwise urchin cooperating with the revolutionaries.

Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen play the Thénardiers, two swindling innkeepers.

Samantha Barks, in her film debut, plays Éponine, the Thénardiers' destitute daughter.

Setting: France in the 1800's during the period of the Restoration. The major action is in Paris, but some episodes take place in neighboring towns. 

Plot: LES MISERABLES , TRAVELS WITH THE PRISONER ON PAROLE , 24601, JEAN VALIJEURT, AS HE RUNS FROM THE RUTHLESS INSPECTOR JAVERT ON A JOURNEY BEYOND THE BARRICADES, AT THE CENTER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. MEANWHILE, THE LIFE OF A WORKING CLASS GIRL WITH A CHILD AT TURNING POINT AS SHE TURNS TO PROSTITUTION TO PAY MONEY TO THE EVIL INNKEEPER AND HIS WIFE WHO LOOK AFTER HER CHILD, COSETTE, VALJEAN PROMISE TO TAKE CARE OF THE CHILD EVENTUALLY LEADS TO A LOVE TRIANGLE BETWE EN COSETTE , MARIUS WHO IS A STUDENT OF THE REVOLUTION, AND EPONINE, A GIRL OF THE STREETS. THE PEOPLE SING OF THEIR ANGER AND ENJOLRAS LEADS THE STUDENTS TO FIGHT UPON THE BARRICADES.

Theme: FORGIVENESS, SELF SACRIFICE AND COURAGE

Symbolism:

Myriel’s Silver Candlesticks

M. Myriel’s candlesticks are the most prominent symbol of compassion in Les Misérables, and they shed a light that always brings love and hope.

Snakes, Insects, and Birds

When describing the novel’s main characters, Hugo uses animal imagery to accentuate these characters’ qualities of good and evil.

1. What does the title mean in relation to the film as a whole?

- the relation to the film as a whole that one of them is suffer from the being slave.

2. Among the characters, to whom can you relate to?

- I can relate to Fantine, because Fantine will risk everything for her child.

3. Which part of the presentation struck you the most? Why?

- when Fantine was rape. Because they know that she has a child.

4. What is the movie’s message?

-the message of the movie that what ever happen you must stand in all the consequence . and always believe in God.

5. Did I like this in general? Why?

- yes! it touches my heart of what the story happen.

6. Did I agree with the main theme/purpose? Why or why not?

- yes! because its shows that in our life their is such thing that happen in the movie.

7. What specifically did I like/dislike? Why?

- i dont like the scene in the movie when Fantine did everything for her child. even tough she put down her dignity.

8. Are there any aspects of theme which are left ambiguous at the end? Why?

-  The degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and social asphyxia are not solved. 

9. How does this film relate to the things that are happening in your life

- the film relate to the things that happen in my life when my mom left us just to work in the other country just to support our needs and our studies.