For the Mexican director, Frankenstein is the film of his life. It’s a project he’s dreamed of for years, a version of Frankenstein that has inspired many of his other works, particularly his other “monsters.” This is a film he has longed to make but was unable to, due to the high production costs. Thanks to Netflix’s resources, this long-awaited project has finally come to life. The result is an extremely spectacular film, made of extraordinary scenes that offer pure visual pleasure. While Del Toro takes some liberties with the original novel – philological purists may have something to say against it – nonetheless he remains largely faithful to the core of the original story.
In a world traversed by light and darkness, a man defies nature to create the unnatural. The Creature is born, and with it, a tragedy. Guillermo del Toro reinterprets Mary Shelley’s masterpiece with the tragic grace of a Miltonian parable: the focus shifts from the act of cr...
