Les Miserables

Wednesday morning I finally got to see the movie I have been waiting for most of the year. Les Miserables! It was completely wonderful and amazing. Definitely not recommended for young children (under 13) just because of the theme and there are also some suggestive scenes. PG-13 is a very appropriate rating for this movie. It is about a man who is put on parole and breaks it because he wants to change his life and cannot while being on parole. His name is Jean Val jean. He meets a woman who is dying and has a daughter that she cannot take care of. He takes young Cosette into his keeping and raises her. Cosette grows up and falls in love with a man named Marius. A love triangle comes into play when Marius' friend Eponine (my favorite character) is in love with him, but being a typical man, Marius does not realize it. Jean Val jean wants to take Cosette over to England from France because it is not safe for them anymore. Cosette and Marius are devastated, but Marius has to stay and fight in the French Revolution. I will not tell you anymore about the story that way you can still enjoy it. The music is phenomenal and the acting is fantastic. If you are interested it is a musical based on the book "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. The book is really really good too.  I will warn you the book is very long, but worth the read. (Also the movie is very sad, but since the name of it translated into English is 'the miserable' that is kind of expected)