Film Studies
Cast:
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Production companies: TriStar Pictures, Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Inc. The IndieProd Company, American Zoetrope
Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein
Rory Jennings as young Victor Frankenstein.
Tom Hulce as Henry Clerval
Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Lavenza
Robert De Niro as The Creation
Movie Review:
Movie begins with the ocean of the North pole. The crew rescues a man named Victor Frankenstein, who had fallen in the Arctic waters. Victor tells his life story with the captain and crew members. He said that he lost everything. The story starts with a flashback.
Victor grows up in Geneva with his adopted sister, Elizabeth Lavenza, the love of his life. Victor left his home for further education. He promised to Elizabeth that he will marry her. In university Frankenstein learns the secrets of preserving life from professor woldman.
After the death of his mother, Victor vows on his mother's grave that he will find a way to conquer death. Eventually, Victor became so inclose with his concept that the perfect creation of man that would be superior to human beings from every way. After too much struggle Victor finally gives his creation life, but he is horrified by the creature's hideous appearance and tries to kill him. Frightened and confused, the creature steals Victor's coat and flees the laboratory, and is later driven away by the townspeople when he tries to steal food. When the Creature went out, all the people became afraid of him and started beating him. The creature didn't understand anything. He saved his life at all costs and left there and came to a forest.
Victor returns to Geneva to marry Elizabeth and on the other side, the creature sees a family in the forest and stays there for months without their knowledge, gradually learning to read and speak by watching them. He developed intimacy with people, here he learnt that the One who created us is called our Lord.
'He never gave me a name'
'He was my Father'
He realized that Victor is his god but Victor has left him here alone. The creature finds Victor's journal in his coat and learns of the circumstances of his creation. He burns down the farm and vows revenge on Victor for bringing him into a world that hates him.
The creature killed Victor's younger brother and asked Victor to create a female creature for him. Victor begins gathering the tools he used to create life, but then he realized this would be too horrible for society so Victor destroyed the female creature, then the creature threaten victor to kill his wife Elizabeth.The creature exacts his revenge on Victor's wedding night by breaking into Elizabeth's bridal suite and ripping her heart out.
The story returns to the Arctic. At the end of the novel, Victor dies on Robert Walton’s ship in the Arctic Circle. The boat captain finds his body and the monster who mourns Victor’s death in the room. The Creature disappears from the boat to kill himself. Creature takes the torch and burns himself alive with Victor's body. Victor and the monster die in the end.
However, the movie can be praised in several aspects, especially that of the gorgeous scenery, superior acting of some characters and creativity. Frankenstein shows the issue that can come from technological and scientific advancement. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a very intriguing movie to watch. I think that this novel shows how important it is to understand the advancement of Science and Technology.
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