Touch Tone films release a 134 minute movie called The Count of Monte Cristo. This film was released in 2002 and was rated PG 13 because of the violence and some innuendos. However, I did not see anything wrong with this movie that would keep me from letting my child watch it.James Caviezel plays Edmond Dante's a very naive young man who is in love with Mercedes Iguanada. He is the second m...

With the 2002 movie release, we all know the story of the Count of Monte Cristo - or so we think. A young man wrongly accused and arrested on the day of his wedding spends 14 years in jail and then returns as the wealthy count, unrecognized and bent on revenge. The novel is much deeper than its many movie adaptations. While elaborate vengeance is indeed its central theme, the book clearly shows...

For a life that could have been a happy life, what sort of punishments can a man inflict on those who had shattered his life?"The Count of Monte Cristo", the book by Alexandre Dumas, the book I had read many times (and still reading!), had such a theme of revenge, not a hurried one but like a slow, lingering death. When Edmond Dantes, the protagonist, start being lucky in being nearly...