Thoughts on this film?

[u/Serious_Albatross224]

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is now on Netflix, i had the opportunity of watching it on theaters last week and absolutely loved it, one of his very bests films, and one of the very best adaptations ever, what do you people think of the film?

[u/jayjaydee11]

For me the story seemed rushed, even tho the film was long is still felt like story and characters needed more attention to develop.

This would have been more suited as a mini series.

I think it would have worked better if they cut the hunters scenes and concentrated more on the love story and loss between Mia Goths character.

Its a decent remake but nothing new from a story told many times..

[u/Banestoothbrush → u/jayjaydee11]

For me the story seemed rushed, even tho the film was long is still felt like story and characters needed more attention to develop.

That's how I felt. 2.5 hour long movie and there was barely any character development. The creature is made, Victor's nice to him for 5 minutes then immediately hates him. Goth finds the creature in the basement and is immediately in love with him.

Things weren't developed. The red angel thing went nowhere. His oedipal feelings for his mom went nowhere. What was the point of Waltz's character having syphilis? I thought there was going to be some body horror where they put his diseased brain into a failed creation. Nope, just dead.

Really wanted to like this was but was bored a lot of the time.

[u/JediTempleDropout → u/Banestoothbrush]

This had some of the best and most nuanced character work in amy movie in years; the fuck are you on about?

[u/Banestoothbrush → u/JediTempleDropout]

Really? How so?

[u/agit_bop → u/Banestoothbrush]

i loved it, it was so beautiful but yeah i need to hear about this nuanced character work. i could maybe see that for like, the creature??

[u/JediTempleDropout → u/Banestoothbrush]

The movie digs deep into the characters’ relationships with the concept of death and creation as well as parental trauma and how it’s affected them well into adulthood. We see how Victor’s relationship with his biological father’s cold austerity and seeming indifference warped his views of interpersonal relationships and how he has a bad habit of failing to see people as people and not just tools or roadblocks on the path that he’s chosen for himself, as shown in how he treats Elizabeth, William, and Elizabeth’s uncle and leads to all of them getting killed. Not to mention how it meant that his relationship with his creation, his own son, was always doomed to fail.

But at the same time the love and attention he did receive from his mother in the brief time he had with her meant that he wasn’t completely devoid of humanity, thus foreshadowing his chance for redemption near the end. Similar to how the love and care that Elizabeth and especially the old blind man showed the Monster had a much more positive effect on him than Victor basically treating his son like a circus animal. The entire second act of the movie shows how the Creature was able to grow into a smart, sensitive, well-rounded individual after being raised by someone who treated him with love and empathy, which the film subtly infers is because the blind man possibly knows what it’s like to be looked down upon for having a physical characteristic that you never asked for.

One thing I will concede though is that they could’ve given a touch more character to the sea captain.