Les Misérables

The question about this movie, is the movie nice or the novel.
This is a classical artwork, that impress me so much.
But i think that the movie is really fast so i cannot feel the art site of the subject.

"You promise to become a new man."

Les Misérables is an 1862 French novel by author Victor Hugo and is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a seventeen-year period in the early nineteenth century.


Jean Valjean: Convicted for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s seven starving children and sent to prison for five years, he is paroled from prison nineteen years later (after four unsuccessful escape attempts added twelve years and fighting back during the second escape attempt added two extra years). 


Javert – A fanatic police inspector. Born in the prisons to a convict father and a gypsy mother, he renounces both of them and starts working as a guard in the prison, including one stint as the overseer for the chain gang of which Valjean is part (and here witnesses firsthand Valjean's enormous strength and just what he looks like).