What drivel. To love another person is to see the face of God???? Really? How Christian or Biblical is that??? Not at all. It does fit in nicely with the Buddhists and other such folks who believe that God is in everything and everyone.
While their are Christian ideas in Hugo’s work the movie spends too much time glorifying the revolution (as did the musical). The revolution is nothing more than left wing communism. There is nothing in the musical’s progressively that acknowledges the devastation that this novel speaks of. Hugo told a far different talethan either B’way or Hollyweird
I believe it has something to do with these verses in the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 25...
‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Jean Valjean did an act of great kindness to the dying Fantine when he adopted her daughter and took her in as his own family.
Since you cannot see the face of God...only his attributes...One of which is Love...
I say the quote is not that far off...
Only Moses was allowed to see God’s backside in passing for if he saw his face... He would die...
You do realize Les Mis is NOT about the French Revolution, right?
The difference is, when we revolted, we separated from the Mother Country but when they revolted, they murdered all the old order and any suspected of being against the revolution.
Per Wikipedia; the death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris), and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. They especially murdered Catholic priests and nuns. The revolution drowned multiple Thousands in the Nantes river. All this in the name of Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood.
Their legacy of the "Reign of Terror" was the rise of Emperor Napoleon, the French Revolution of 1848 and the bloody Paris Commune of 1871, feeding a national ennui that lasts to this day.
Les Misérables is set at the end of the long period of the French Revolution and the subsequent rise and fall of Napoleon. I will never understand why any American wants to view a movie that glorifies this period of Satanic Barbarianism.
The above statement "To love another person is to see the face of God" is entirely correct, for "Let Us make man in Our Image" ought to give one the key, to pause and reflect. Contradicting that Genesis statement is refuting the Bible, all of it, at the outset, and is taking the part of that old liar, the Devil. Is it not?
Does the movie at all show the consequences of these revolutions, like the death toll?