Earl Carpenter | Javert’s Suicide | June 20, 2010
I really don’t have words for this.
;sjalkdgih;oadfn;khldsfaj;lsd what w h a t
(I still miss ‘give way, Javert, there is a life to save but whatever)
Oh god when his voice breaks on that ‘it is either Valjean or Javert’ this is a man who’s whole world has been shattered, lost and jerky and brittle and beautiful because what else can he do? it’s over, he was wrong, it was supposed to be written on THE DOORWAYS TO PARADISE but it isn’t because he would have let a young man die in no service of any kind of justice and once again this criminal asks only the chance to do the work of God.
Best Suicide I’ve ever seen? Possibly.
Earl is definitely one of my favorite Javert’s, is this from the tour?
YES YES YES. all of this. and fatalism! yes, absolutely. And this delivery of ‘either Valjean or Javert’ line is...
I do. Freaking awesome.
OH MY GOD I’m so thrilled you wrote about that moment because I’m thoroughly obsessed and was going to write a whole...
;sjalkdgih;oadfn;khldsfaj;lsd what w h a t (I still miss ‘give way, Javert, there is a life to save but whatever) Oh god...
Stop crying Javert, everything’s going to be okay. You just have to believe in yourself.