《悲惨世界》的故事大家都了解,Javert是个反角,但是他的死却是如此让人心痛。作为一个警长,维护法律的尊严是他心中唯一的信仰。遗憾的是他生活在一个畸形社会制度之中,于是他并不知道,他用生命维护的法律究竟是正义的天平,还是邪恶的权杖?然而他终于发现追捕几十年的逃犯竟并非一个恶人——这是他的悲剧。和最后一声怒吼一起响起的,是JAVERT的主题音乐《STARS》,他曾经为了信仰“SWEAR BY THE STAR”,而如今,却看见“THE STARS ARE BLACK AND COLD”。于是他选择了死亡,因为没有什么比信仰的破灭更让人绝望。
(歌词)
Javert's Suicide
——FROM音乐剧《悲惨世界》
(Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to a bridge over the river Seine.)
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was his hour at last
To put a seal on my fate
Wipe out the past
And wash me clean off the slate!
All it would take
Was a flick of his knife.
Vengeance was his
And he gave me back my life!
Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase.
I am the Law and the Law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on earth that we share
It is either Valjean or Javert!
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.
I should have perished by his hand
It was his right.
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live... but live in hell.
And my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed?
Shall his sins be forgiven?
Shall his crimes be reprieved?
And must I now begin to doubt,
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
That granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on....
(He throws himself into the swollen river.)