Analysis Of Les Misérables

Since Les Misérables screened in 2012, it has caught attention from people all over the world. Not only because of its enormous production and its cliffhanging plot, which helped the movie won dozens of awards, but also how this movie described French Revolution from political and social perspectives made people found an echo in the movie. Students calling for revolution in France sang the song “Do You Hear The People Sing?” became one of the most representative scene in Les Misérables. This song is passionate, inspiring with impressive chorus, which implied the indomitable spirits of these young revolutionists that though they might be failed and died for the revolution, still they were proud of having fight. During social movement of “Occupy

The aim of this gathering was to voice out objections towards proposal of “Method for Selecting the Chief Executive in 2017” suggested by government. Since Civic Square outside Tim Mei Avenue was blocked by police, participants of the movement spread away and tried to occupy other areas in Central. The heat of the movements was maximized when police force used OC foam and pepper spray to attack unarmed protestors on 28th September. 2014. The public was surprised and shocked by the decision of police. Many citizens participated the movement so as to show support to those students who fought for fair election. The situation was so uncontrollable that protestors tried occupying other parts in Central, Admiralty, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok. A heat debate on whether the movement should continue between Occupy Central supporters and dissenters and the occupation continues until the current moment. Since many protestors used umbrella to protect themselves from pepper spray, some media started calling this movement as “Umbrella Revolution”(Chiu & Chan, 2014; Lynch, 2014; “Why is”,

However, they presented their ideas in different ways, which gave a different result. In the movie, students tried to persuade people by giving speech on street. In Hong Kong, students tried to persuade people by using social media such as Facebook, Whatsapps and twitter. Of course, difference between is due to rapid development of technology, but there is no doubt that use of social media is a much effective method. Since people on street have different values, they may not have the same interpretation as you on the same event. Even people are willing to join you, their beliefs are not strong enough that they may not be willing to sacrifice much and fight with you. This is the reason why Marius and his colleagues failed in the movements. On social media, people with similar values are often gathered together to make discussion. As people have similar interpretations towards the same event, symbols created and meanings interpreted are reinforced by collectivism inside the group and stimulate the development of movements. After revolution happened in Egypt and Arab, scholars put a lot of effort on investigating the powerful role of social media in development of social movements. Researches showed that social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, acted as an important role in facilitating communication between groups