Review of Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

A good anime, but I don't see it superior to the book or the Soviet version of 1988. Edmond Dantes is closely associated with Gwynplaine from The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, who was a victim of the greatest injustices and losing everything and abandoned in misery. Both symbolize suffering in the face of powerful groups and that these groups create the monsters that will destroy them, multiplying them. In this the count is just a one-dimensional villain, not the one tormented by their suffering, wanting to destroy those responsible for their misfortunes, punishing them, but able to do good and realize when their revenge has gone too far. I liked to emphasize a lot marriage, but no love; family, but no no family love; riches, but no conscience; justice, but no equity; order, but no equilibrium; authority, but no right; power, but no intelligence; splendour, but no light. These attacks on society I miss the Edmond and Haydee relationship. They were beyond the pale of hope, and had reached the depth of possible calamity; they had sunk into it, both of them. An observer who had watched them would have felt his reverie melt into immeasurable pity. What must they not have suffered! The decree of misfortune weighed visibly on these human creatures, and never had fate encompassed two beings who had done nothing to deserve it, and more clearly turned destiny into torture, and life into hell. They were in a Paradise. They were in love. Their love and care and care kept them from falling into the abyss of despair. They turned the story about a madman who just cause disaster without any compassion. When he still had human feelings and capable of noble deeds, he realized that he went too far. The ending was a disaster when in the book Edmond realized it was the wrong way. Just a monster dying in the anime, in the book he's a bitter person. What was destiny? A snare. Situation? Despair. Society? Hatred. And himself? A defeated man. (He felt remorse for his revenge). Society is the stepmother (only hurt him), God is the father. Society is the world of the body, God is the world of the soul. The one tends to the coffin, to the deal box in the grave, to the earth-worms, and ends there. The other tends to expanded wings, to transformation into the morning light, to ascent into the firmament, and there revives into new life. That demon with the count was terrible when the divine providence that gave him help. As if he were a demon, not someone who got a second chance and went too far. It is not money, revenge or glory, social status that will make you happy, but Haydee's love that gives you new hope with your pure heart.