The movie, Phantom of the
Opera, is a film based on the French novel, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux,
which was first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois from September 23,
1909 to January 8, 1910.
Although I was not able to
finish it, I really liked the movie. The said Phantom of the Opera (Gerard
Butler), to me, is a lonely soul that produces dark music. His deformed face gave
him misery. He seemed to seek for love and sympathy.
The fact that the Phantom of
the Opera is wearing a mask does not just simply imply about him wanting to
hide his deformed face, but in a deeper sense, it represents a few things. One,
the character is indeed a genius in producing music but unfortunately, is not
recognized by anyone. The music he produces is something that he hides from the
world. Two, it represented the judgments made by society and such. When
Christine has not yet seen his true face, she was mesmerized by him, but when
she saw what was behind the mask, a deformed face, she was extremely frightened
and all of her wonderful thoughts about him immediately vanished. That is, at
least, what I think.
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