All four of us - husband, self, Son aged 20 and daughter aged 16, went to see Les Miserables, and we all loved it, and independently have been listening to the soundtrack. Son downdoaded (probs illegally). Daughter and I listened to old CD in the car. Husband streamed videos of old shows on his iPad, while he was working on his big computer.
Daughter can't do the paper round at the mo because of the bandaged hand, but luckily son needs the money and is getting up on time, and we hear him coming back singing songs from Les Mis, which makes a change from Mayday Parade, Morrissey and other miserabalists.
What makes Les Miserables stand out is, of course, the big powerful plot with its great themes of spiritual redemption, dreams of political change, romantic love, and tragedy everywhere - I said to Stan - it makes most stories look a bit small really. I also feel like reading the novel! and I am still stuck in Moby Dick - the chaps have at last killed a whale. Thank the Lord, they have been sailing around, digressing wildly for ages.
Hugh Jackman is brilliant in the main role, and the young men are also very touching. I am haunted by the memory of Sacha Baron Cohen's eyes - blank of every human sympathy. He brought to that part not roguery, but a portrait of genuine evil.
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