We love film because it can bring the two together in a basically inexpensive and convenient way (have you been to Broadway lately?) Film can attain a verisimilitude that plays and musicals would be silly to even strive for. We love music, which imitates the movements of the soul. This soul imitates Javert.) For this reason, we love stories, which are imitations of life. (An unhealthy, undeveloped soul always needs some sort of moral or lesson. A healthy soul delights in things well imitated. That drive spills over into our leisure time. So we spend all our days and nights trying to find others that we consider worthy of our imitation. We are an Image of Another, and as image we cannot be fulfilled until we are like Another. At first I didn't know what to make of his statement, but over the years I have become convinced that it might e one of the most insightful things ever said about human beings. He says in his Poetics that man by nature loves imitation. However, Aristotle gives a better explanation. I suppose some people like it for the blood and violence and cleverness. I was asked recently why I like the Godfather trilogy so much, the implication being that so much bloodshed and evil behavior doesn't merit so much appreciation. It takes you there, as we like to say, in a way that the musical can't do, and that is precisely the power of film. Javert, the guard, stands above them, looking down significantly on the prisoners. A great ship of the Napoleonic era is being dragged into dry dock by a huge gang of miserable prisoners, dozens of them wrangling it with ropes while themselves waste deep in the turbulent water, dozens more standing on tiers to do their miserable share. The opening of the new movie version of Les Miserables reveals both its virtues and its main challenges.
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