Two hundred years have passed and still, the biggest difference between people, a difference deeper than race, religion or nationality, is the financial status. Some have very little, others live the lives of privileges and pleasure, enjoying the services of private doctors, fashion designers, gourmet cooks, and luxury travel. We love the stories of from rags to riches, fables of how a poor and good boy resorting to wit and luck became a millionaire and changed his life for the better. But the reality is less optimistic. There were millions who starved to death, millions who died in political conflicts, and millions who sold everything, including their dignity, for a better life for their children. Despite the passing of time, a story of one who overcame poverty and those who were somehow connected to his renewed life. The fate of the criminals of the circumstances, the cruelty of the hungry, money-making world, the young French paying for the sins of their parents, trying to fight for their own happiness. Poverty-struck France with all its injustices, based on Victor's Hugo novel, Les Misérables.
Aren't you irritated by those who believe that humans can be put into a box of ordered, traditional and politically correct? Who consider otherness a deviation and whose views don't reach further than their own little, fenced garden of friends and acquaintances?
Would you ask a limbless child why he wasn't born normal? Would you blame a child from the orphanage for being abandoned by his parents? Would you stigmatize a divorced woman for the years of being beaten by the husband, or mentally abused, who then found the strength to put an end to the nightmare? In the process of leaving the Dark Ages of our mindset, would you discriminate a man who considered himself a woman? The Danish Girl. Every epoch has its martyrs.
Marriage. You'd wish it would be that easy as shown in the fairy tale. After some months of complications, you wear your white wedding dress, put on a wedding ring and hope for the best. Fairy tales rarely happen. There's life. Children. Diseases. Problems. Sometimes your husband leaves you for a younger woman. Sometimes you're being cheated for years, not having the slightest idea, living in this bubble of trust and security. Yet sometimes you can't stand someone faults. Flaws which seemed not important at the beginning prove to be a nuisance in the middle of your trip. Sometimes you devote your life to a person who doesn't appreciate your devotion. Sometimes you are in the shade of a career-oriented individual, whose life purpose is to be successful, known, respected but you lack this respect at home. For me, this is a film about marriage. Not about a genius. Few of us can invent complicated mathematical theories. But all of us wish they had a happy family/single/straight/gay/traditional/extravagant/simple/luxurious life. And it often relies on whom you're willing to spend the rest of your life with.


