"Sing once again with me, our strange duet"

Sometime ago I've finished the book Phantom and have recently rented the Phantom of the Opera movie (that and van helsing in all its suckiness...two movies seen in one month? unbelivable...). The black and white still existed contrary to what someone once told me.
For the overall story in both the book and movie - beautiful. Beautifully written, sung, and portrayed I was really taken away by this. I'm adding another book on my need to read list, I've never read the original book and I need to because I am almost sure that the book Phantom was only adapted from the original story, (no question that the movie wasn't) I would like to see the musical and buy the soundtrack as well, but I have to be honest with myself, I'm a poor kid saving for college. Tickets for that show are expensive enough ordinarily but with all the hype going on about it I can see prices rising because people would be more than willing to pay.
I see it as an outward representation of how strange and fragile the heart is. It is much too powerful to toy with because of the unique and extreme response the heart can evoke. This story gives you the eyes to see the mindsets and inner feelings normally not shown. These rollercoaster like emotions were given attention to show exactly how much damage making finalities wait can be. I believe that everyone would in specific circumstances feel as the characters did in the story, but how they would outwardly respond is another story. There is no direct emotional justification to give, only circumstances to take into mind. If you have throughout your life been denied even the basest rights as a human, ostracized from society by being proclaimed a black product of hell, stowed away up in an attic for fear of mobs, you will most likely lose respect for the public. This was his last attempt at any human associations. Anyone with enough insight can see why these tragic conditions would negatively condition a person, shaping a character out of man's fear and hatred. The emotions were truly a prominent element in the story, but it boils down to one thing- the need to feel positive emotions while being tormented by a twisted world man's prejudices has built for the different since birth. No matter how far this is repressed, every human has a need for positive relationships after being emancipated from any claims as human.
I've thought long on this seeing as this topic was the center of extensive controversy sometime back, and many of the themes can be paralleled to those involved the more I think about it. These three characters define a choice and why exactly you must not choose to be blind. Light and dark caught between and depending on the whims of a pacifist gray...
Surely 'none of us can choose where we will love'. What an abstract emotion it is, love... It has the capability to affect every fiber of your being. It makes people do the strangest things, find faces you never knew you had. This is why I can't say that any relationship I've been in has been in vain, through most long term interactions I have with any person I discover something new within me.