In 1919, the Paris Opera House is holding an auction. Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, an elderly wheelchair-bound man, purchases a music box. He spots a familiar figure, Madame Giry, the former ballet mistress. Then, their attention is drawn to "Lot 666", a chandelier in pieces. As the chandelier is lifted, the film then shifts back to 1870, when the opera house was in its prime.
The Phantom, a disfigured musical genius, haunts the Opera House, hiding in its catacombs. He falls in love with a young soprano, Christine Daae, and tutors her into becoming the new opera star. Christine is torn between her childhood sweetheart Raoul and her attachment to the Phantom, who is masquerading as the Angel of Music, the spirit of Christine's dead father. Meanwhile, the Phantom engages in obsessive and deviant behavior, such as stalking Christine, murdering people to get to her and terrorizing anyone opposing Christine or himself.
When Christine visits her father's grave, the Phantom pretends to be the Angel of Music to lure her into his clutches. Raoul has followed her and rides up on his white horse in time to rescue her. A vicious sword fight erupts between Raoul and the Phantom, Raoul is wounded, but quickly rebounds and beats the Phantom. Raoul is about to kill the Phantom, but Christine begs him not to. They ride off as the enraged Phantom decides to "Let it be war upon them both!", even after Christine made Raoul spare him.
During the night's performance of "Don Juan Triumphant", an opera written by the Phantom, the Phantom and Christine sing "The Point of no Return", in which she tricks the Phantom into believing that she loves him. Raoul, sitting in the audience, is also tricked into believing that she loves the Phantom. As the Phantom begs Christine to have a life with him, she unmasks him, revealing his disfigurement to all in attendance. The Phantom kidnaps Christine and causes the chandelier to crash into to the audience. The Phantom, in a rage, believes Christine can never love him after seeing his scarred appearance, but she says the distortion lies in his soul, not his face. Raoul arrives to save Christine, but the Phantom snares him in a Punjab lasso, and tells Christine that if she chooses Raoul, he will free her, but Raoul will die; if she chooses him, he will release Raoul, but she must stay with him forever. Christine agrees to enter into this unholy bargain to save Raoul's life, even though he begs her to let him die so that she can live her life. Christine sings to the Phantom, tells him he's not alone, and they kiss passionately. Touched, he frees both her and Raoul. The Phantom realizes that Christine could have loved him, but his horrible deeds and anger have destroyed all chance of gaining her love. He realizes that if he truly loves Christine he must let her leave with the man she loves, Raoul. Christine returns the ring the Phantom gave her, then forces herself to leave with Raoul. She glances back a final time, knowing she loves him deep inside. Heartbroken, the Phantom, understanding he destroyed their love, grabs a candle-brier and smashes the mirror, disappearing behind it and a curtain. When the mob arrives, Meg, Christine's friend and Madame Giry's daughter, finds only his mask.
The scene shifts to the music box which fades to black and white in 1919. Raoul visits the cemetery and sadly places the music box at Christine's tombstone. On the ground next to the grave he sees a fresh red rose tied with a black ribbon and the engagement ring the Phantom gave to Christine, signifying that his love for her will never die.
The overall meaning of this moive I think is ture love is blind or never judge a book by it's cover. The Phantom loved Christine so much he would do anything for her but in the end he smothered her with his acts of cruelity and lost her for every.
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