Mary Shelley

Frankenstein Review: Mary Shelley’s Classic Gets Its Due

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein plays as a mirror to modern-day hubris. Very emotionally articulated, the film remains a stunning adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. The film is a smart autopsy of unchecked ambition in an era of tech gods. Shelley showcased the creature’s abandonment to expose societal failure in her 1818 novel; here, it is reframed. The god-complex gets real. It escalates from the lab, and the catastrophe unfolds in under two hours. However, Isaac’s Victor starts magnetic, but goes into a cautionary selfie of narcissism. On the other hand, Goth’s Elizabe | Click Here...