Les Misérables is a musical drama film released in December 2012 and chosen to be the 2012 film of the year. I think it has fully deserved this, for everything in the movie,from the touching, ingenious plot to exact makeup and styling, is well planned and put into practice.
The main plot is about Jean Valjean, a man who spent 19 years in jail for stealing a piece of bread for a sick child. Through a series of events Valjean ends up promising a dying woman to take care of her soon-to-be-orphan-daughter, Cosette. Jean Valjean and Cosette spend nine years of their life moving from one place to another and hiding from Javert, the policeman who is chasing Valjean for violating his probation. A group of students are planning a revolution under the lead of Marius Pontmercy and his friends Enjolras and Gavroche. Marius falls in love with Cosette, who has grown into a beautiful young woman. The rest of the story is about the stages of the revolution and how the relationships developed, and shall be left untold if someone hasn’t seen the film yet.
I think one of the most important reasons why this film is so touching and spellbinding is the variety of different characters it provides. That way anyone can relate to the story and find it interesting from their own point of view. My own favorites are Russel Crowe as Javert, struggling with his keen sense of justice, and Sacha Baron Cohen with Helena Bonham Carter as Mr and Mrs Thénardier, untruthful and unscrupulous innkeepers with whom Cosette used to live with before Valjean took care of her.
A review of Les Misérables can not be done without mentioning the amazing soundtrack composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg. The film is based on the musical Les Misérables, and includes all fourty-seven musical numbers from the original musical. For me and many others music is an important way of conveying feelings, and the brilliance of the music in the movie amazes me every time I watch it. I think Les Misérables is a masterpiece of cinema, music and theatre arts, and I could recommend it to anyone.
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