- DngerlyAwkwrd
- |
- Noble Legendary Member
"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."
Posted by: ringo toe
Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd
Posted by: kimy1688
It looks like a boring movie for old people. Anyone who's watched it, is this true?
Hardly.
Spoiler-free Summary: Jean Valjean starts a new life after 19 years in prison for stealing bread for his nephew and attempting to escape multiple times. There are many plot lines after this, such as the tragic life of Fantine (one of Valjean's former workers forced into prostitution to pay for medicine for her daughter), a love story between Valjean's adopted daughter and a revolutionary Marius, and the revolution itself in Paris.
Doesn't the film start in 1815? In which case, the revolution should be long gone.
This is true, and this is told in the opening. I meant to say a French revolution, not the French Revolution. The revolution focused on in Les Miserables is the June Rebellion of 1832, which-
[SPOILER ALERT]
-was a failure, lasting only a few days.