Les Miserables opened on Christmas at midnight, and since then everyone has been talking about the show.

Sophomore Morgan Heckman enjoyed the movie version of this Broadway hit immensely.

“I appreciated the emotions displayed by the characters and the fact that Javert did not come across as completely evil,” Heckman said.

Sophomore Caleb Flynn was in agreement.

“The music was absolutely beautiful throughout the entire movie,” Flynn said.

In the beginning as the prisoners pulled a ship out of the sea, some of them spoke rather than sang their lines, which was a different experience than the stage version.

“[My least favorite part] was the beginning. The singing wasn’t as strong as I had anticipated at that point,” Heckman said.

Heckman thought is was hard to compare Les Mis on the screen to the Les Mis performed at HHS last year, or even a professional performance of the musical.

“They’re really different shows. Even though they obviously have the same plot, it’s hard to compare,” Heckman said. “It was really interesting at points because I was expecting characters to look a certain way, and they didn’t.”

This screen rendition of the popular story was different from other movies made of Les Miserables in the past.

“Characters from older Les Mis movies were singers who happened to be actors. This movie has extremely good actors who happen to be singers,” Flynn said.