No you don’t understand.
THIS was Javert’s weakest point. He was counting the bodies of the barricade boys. The young men which, he knew, he could have saved. He could have saved every single one. Yet he didn’t. In his black-and-white mind, his duty was far more important than the petty lives of rebellious schoolboys.
But then, my friends, this is when he realizes; this is the very moment when he begins to question everything he’s ever stood for. Perhaps their lives meant something, could have been something more. Maybe in this one instance, the law wasn’t of utmost importance.
And Russell Crowe did an amazing job of portraying this okay? That’s why we needed him.
(Source: tonycurtis, via i-am-from-the-gutter-too-blog)