Title: Victor Hugo is spinning in his grave
Product review: The cinematography, the sets, the scenery, the costuming--all are lovely. I like all these actors.But Jean Valjean punching Monseignior Bienvenu? Unbuttoning Fantine's corsette?I feel dirty. And not in a good way. These alterations are worse than just gratuitous and titillating. They misrepresent the era. And they are contrary to the spirit and intention of the original.Victor Hugo wrote a different story altogether. It was about redemption through self-abnegation. If the screenwriters didn't like what Hugo wrote, they would have been welcome to write their own story, and call it something other than Les Miserables.
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