While I tend to be somewhat averse to people taking classics from long ago and trying to draw current parallels that are often strained, I find this article to be very good.
I’ve seen the stage version.
Victor Hugo did, in Jean ValJean, create a man who in the worst of times retained a focus on God and not on the turmoil around him.
The revolutionaries come off as young, stupid and deadly.
It probably is a film for our times. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
It is brilliant. Inspiring story of redemption, grace, justice, and mercy. God’s hand on ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances