孤星淚

【孤星淚】(Les Misérables) 是今年聖誕讓栗最期待的電影，可是整體效果只屬一般。電影的開首與結尾均差強人意，開段的獻唱含糊不清，惹栗懷疑是否 bc 裝修後音響系統變差；結尾的有情人終成眷屬，看得栗直搖頭。真不明從前的觀眾，何以會接受如此兒戲的一見鍾情。(又或是 Amanda Seyfried 未能撐場......)

雖然電影有不少敗筆，幸而也有不少可觀之處。Hugh Jackman 的精湛演技，還有 Anne Hathaway 的動人歌聲，為電影追回不少分數。不過 Anne 的演出略嫌太過用力，表情也稍稍誇張......

Helena Bonham Carter 是電影的另一亮點，她在電影中飾演 Madame Thénardier 一角，十分搶鏡。Isabelle Allen 飾演小時候的 Cosette，戲份不多，但卻十分討好，想必令不少觀眾留下深刻印象。

電影有多首撼動人心的歌曲，除了令栗熱血沸騰的 Do you hear the people sing，由 Éponine (Samantha Barks 飾) 獻唱的 On my own，同樣令栗心蕩神馳。試過單戀苦戀的朋友，聽這首歌時想必百般滋味在心頭：

And now I'm all alone again nowhere to turn, no one to go to
without a home without a friend without a face to say hello to 
And now the night is near
Now I can make believe he's here

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head

On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight

And all I see is him and me forever and forever 
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us 

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers

I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world would go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known

I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own

[ From: http://www.elyrics.net ] these lyrics are last corrected by MsMegan

雖然電影版的【孤星淚】有其不足之處，但依然是這個假期到戲院消磨時間的首選。想想演員陣容，還有那些耳熟能詳的好歌，就明白即使電影再多瑕疵，也比同期上映的某些作品出色。