V Shows Evey Monte Cristo, Explained：get me every time

What's really going on

The Monte Cristo screening is V's way of explaining himself without saying it outright. The line he loves, "It is not my sword, Mondego, but your past that disarmed you," is the whole plot of V for Vendetta in miniature: a man undone by what was done to him. Evey misses the point at first, only seeing that the hero neglected Mercedes, but her complaint lands on V, who has invited her into his world while keeping her at arm's length. Her line, "he cared more about revenge than he did about her," is both film criticism and the film's central question. Right after it, the broadcast reports Prothero's death, and V reads the anchor's lie off her blinking: revenge has already become method. The scene quietly sets up the choice Evey will later have to make.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Revenge in the film mirrors what V is doing to the city.
• A veteran stops calling anything a coincidence.
• No evidence can be its own kind of evidence.
• The news praises a man the scene has just watched fall.

発音のポイント

• but your past — Link but your into one sound, and run past that together.
• like a ghost — Run like, a and ghost together as one string of sound.
• at this as — At, this and as blur into a single run of sound.