{"id":1711,"date":"2013-02-18T10:52:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:23:27","slug":"les-miserables-in-a-new-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/02\/les-miserables-in-a-new-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Les Miserables in a new light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviews of Director Tom Hooper\u2019s big screen adaptation of Victor Hugo\u2019s book, Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables <\/em>are almost as entertaining as the film. The reviews exhibit barbed, bazaar, candid opinions that human beings are vulnerable to express.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, my husband<\/a> and I ventured out for our quadrennial date and actually got in a vehicle and drove to the Walton Theater to watch Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables. <\/em><\/p>\n

For a little background, I read Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables<\/em> decades ago. Loved it. But clearly, I didn\u2019t remember every detail therefore whenever I\u2019m drawn back to the ideas in Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables,<\/em> through other movies or renditions, I learn something new about broken dreams, religious values, unrequited love, sacrifice, and redemption. The many versions of the book add to the scope of Victor Hugo\u2019s donation to the advancement of humanity.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t found a reviewer yet who echoes my impression of the 2012 musical rendition of Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables. <\/em>\u00a0I don\u2019t lean toward the passionate exclamation, \u201cNothing short of breathtaking, triumphant and beautiful!\u201d I also don\u2019t lean toward the review quipped by Alistair Harkness who commented, and I\u2019m abridging here, \u201cBombastic, overblown, overlong, needlessly convoluted\u2026\u201d His remark seems backward. The French to English language version of the book, Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables,<\/em> contains 530,982 words. The 2012 film, scripted by William Nicholson, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil, and Claude-Michel Sch\u00f6nberg, managed to effectively garner at least 250 pages into a 3 minute song. Bravo.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Les Mis<\/em>\u00e9rables<\/em> impressed me with the fact that time\/space and the human language<\/a> are surmounted with the use of lyrics, music, acting, and visuals. All these layers together produced a grand effect that are provoking the human mind to grow out of its own codes, expectations, assumptions, and flawed views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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