YMMV / Vendetta! (1886)

• Values Dissonance: It is a task to follow along with the misogynistic reasoning of Fabio and other men in the story.
  • Vendetta! purports to be put to paper in the now, so in that case Fabio Romani is thirty in 1886. That means that when he married Nina in 1881 when she was sixteen at most, he was twenty-five. And that means that when he killed her in 1884, she was nineteen at most and he was twenty-eight (looking like fifty-five). While those ages may not have been odd in the 19th Century, a modern audience is likely to see Nina as a victim of a severe power imbalance.
  • Vendetta! portrays Nina as an insult to the well-meaning convent that raised her to womanhood in the Lord's grace. Modern audiences, however, are going to hear the many horror stories of Christian institutions that have been widely published since in Nina's convent being described as "strict" and Nina's stated desire to leave the place and be free. The fact she's been put in a convent in the first place due to her father's loss of fortune, implied to be due to gambling, as a means to have her fed and keep up her value as a future bride also is more likely than not going to be met with sympathy nowadays instead of indifference.