secretmellowblog:

What she says: I’m fine

 What she means: I hate adaptations that turn Javert into The Villain™

because they act like Valjean’s suffering isn’t caused by a corrupt society that oppresses its most vulnerable members, but by One Guy Who Is Mean. It’s not that “Book-Javert never did anything wrong uwu”: it’s that these adaptations shift Hugo’s criticisms of society at large onto a single dude

Hugo is like: “wow we as a society are really cruel to poor people and ex-cons!”

While these adaptations are like “wow that one guy Javert is really cruel to poor people and ex-cons! and what do you mean this is actually a larger social problem caused by underlying issues of historical systemic oppression and institutionalized prejudice that affect everyone??!” 

It’s a way of… stripping the deeply-political Les Mis of its political message,  and it’s kinda creepy tbh