Two "shames" with regard to Les Misérables:
1.) It is a shame that the average Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christian
won't see it. They'll go see whatever the latest film pushed as a
Christian film is, because it is advertised as a Christian film, pushed
on Evangelical radio stations and in churches, and having all the
trappings of a Christian film. But Les Misérables has a far richer and
clearer presentation of the Gospel than
the majority of "Christian" films, without the bad acting, heavy-handed
moralizing, and shoddy story telling.
2.) It is a shame that
the average man won't see it, because it is a musical. It is rare that
we see on screen, or anywhere in media, such an example of what it is to
be a good man, a godly man. Jean Valjean shows what it is to repent,
to forgive, to live one's life as a defender of the weak, to live
sacrificially, and to finish life well. These are things men rarely see
at all, but which desperately need to be more visible in our time.
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