Les Miserables: So, what did you think?
Re an actor just wanting to be liked and having his character doing things not in keeping with the character -- I've seen it differently with Crowe's choices and just wrote about it somewhere else. Here's how I'm seeing it: Javert makes his plea to the stars for constancy and for the straight and narrow, hoping for no grays. As he encounters the grays, in Valjean and even in himself (w/ the medal), he can't deal with it, as his entire value system is upended. He's left unable to act because h...
