Les Miserables

wow. Just been to see Les Miserables and it was amazing i never stopped crying all the way through. I persoally think it was a brilliant film and I love how they created the emotional connection with the audience by using such graphic and conronting scenes. The music also made an immediate emotional connection because the brilliant actors sang them brilliantly with meaning and true passion. I think they have but the film together beautifully and credit to the director ( Tom Hooper) for making such an incredible film. One of my favourite scenes in the whole movie was when Anne Hathaway sang ''I Dreamed a Dream''. This was one of my favourite scenes because of the emotion we see in such a little scene. The whole just consists of a close up of her face as she sings however they have followed the rule of thirds by placing her to the right hand side of the frame this makes her the main focus point. Because they have used a close up and no camera movement for this scene for such a powerful song it immediately becomes confrontational and we are staring into the face of someone who is at rock bottom talking about how her expectations of the world have fallen apart and haveleft her with nothing but shame and discomfort. This song really reflects on how she has been raped of her pride and is scrounging to make a life of herself it also catches our hearts as she talks about how its a cruel world and that her dreams are just shattered hopes for the future in a country torn by war and poverty. I swear i could not breathe as she sang this song as i watched her cry out for help and scream for change in this one song tears just streamed down my face yet id never felt so embraced. This scene also very loosely reminded me of the music video Nothing Compares- Sinead O'Connor becuase also in the video there is little shots used and the frame is just a close up. This technique really catches peoples attention because you feel like you are standing right infront of them as they pour out their emotions and this becomes almost intimidating so much so we cant look away and so we see every facial expession and every tear. I would love to analyse the whole film but at 2 and a half hours this would be exstremely time consuming so i have just talked about my favourite scene.