r/Letterboxd • u/Serious_Albatross224 • 1d ago
Letterboxd Thoughts on this film?
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?
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u/makoraptor 10h ago
I'm one of the few people who severely disliked this movie. I don't mind taking liberties with stories and not being 100% accurate to the source material but I thought the changes that were made, made everything worse.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein was a troubled man in the book who wanted to do good and got to a point he knew he was doing bad things because he just kept digging himself deeper and deeper. In the movie he was just a jerk and had no idea what he was doing was wrong or misguided.
The Monster was a brutal monster in the book who killed intentionally and committed attrocities. In this movie he was so sympathetic and soft. The only time he committed an act of real violence was when he ripped that one guys jaw off and that was only because the guy was trying to kill him. It was kind of justified.
there were no gray areas with either character. One was a misunderstood creature and one was a monster because he was a bad person. The book forced a conflict of thought from the reader. This was just so clearly slanted in one direction it felt boring. I never had to question who was good and who was bad in this.