ever since i read frankenstein for the first time my senior year of high school, it’s been my favorite book for reasons i couldn’t always explain. all i knew at the time, while still denying certain aspects of my own identity to myself, was that i felt an instant kinship with the creature - this tragic being that didn’t ask to be alive or have any say in the body he was born into or the way he looked and only ever wanted to be loved and no longer alone, but because of the things he had no control over, the world wouldn’t let him. because no matter what he did, they’d only ever see him as a monster first…

Ponders none of the philosophical or moral issues of Shelley’s work, instead opting to go full steam ahead into Daddy Issues The Movie. Largely uncritical of male violence, instead absolving it because Daddy Issues. Painfully literal to the point that a character says to Victor’s face “You’re the monster.” Women are reduced to angels or demons. Has the gall to end with a Lord Byron quote. Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi are committed tho, finding madness and grace among all the CGI’d bullshit. 

ChiFilmFest #4

EDIT: I turned off the comments because people on here are unhinged. But to answer the  “what could the film do to be more critical of male violence” question — use filmic language better. All the…