The Count of Monte Cristo appears in "Room"
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During the week that I began watching a DVD of "The Count of Monte Cristo", 400 minutes of the 1998 French tv-mini-series adaptation of the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas père, taking it in over four days, we interrupted the sequence after the third night by viewing a Netflix DVD of "Room", which had arrived by mail (we wanted to send it sent back the following day), not knowing that the movie of a young woman held captive for seven years along with the five-year-old child she’d conceived & given birth to would include a significant reference to the Count of Monte Cristo’s own incarceration & means of escape.
Date submitted:Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:36:01 +0000Coincidence ID:8498
