Movie Reviews: Frankenstein (Kevin Connor)

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Title/Original Title: Frankenstein Or The Modern Promoteus

• Director: Kevin Connor

• Country and Year of Production: 2004

 

• Main Cast (Leading Actors)

Alex Newman As Victor Frankenstein

Mark Jax As Alphonse Frankenstein

Nicole Lewis As Elizabeth Frankenstein

Julie Delpy As Caroline Frankenstein

Daniel Williams As William Frankenstein

Luke Gross As Creature

Donald Sutherland As Captain Robert Walton

William Hurt As Prof. Waldman

Dan Stevens As Henry Clervar

Jean Rockfort As The Blind Man

Monika Hilmerova As Justine Moritz

Oliver La Sueur As Felix

Edita Borsona As Agatha

Hannah Westhuysen As Eva

 

 

 

GENRE

Horror

 

 PLOT

A Dutch sailing vessel gets stuck in the Arctic ice captained by Robert Walton. On the iced sea the crews see an injured man. They save him by bringing inside a room of the ship assisted by the captain Walton.

The injured man is Victor Frankenstein, he is afraid of the imminent attack of the creature, the captain reassures him, he said to him that none will stop the creature.

From the bed Victor tells the captain its story, starting from his young age.

His storytelling emerges that he is obsessed with life and death, and a huge ego.

Being a scientific man spoke about his scientific studies at the University of Ingolstadt.

His tutor was Professor Waldman, an unconventional man who told Victor to go over the moral laws and even the science, he prone Victor to be a pioneer of science.

Victor wants to apply the theory to practical things, he will give the life to a frog and the dog for a few minutes using the electricity.

Victor invites Professor Waldman at the local cemetery, the aim is to find the best corpses to select, the Professor remains astonished knowing that he has awakened the dormant must inside Victor.

After a powerful thunderstorm the creature was born without his father, the creature looks around, the creature is conscious to be alone, he finds a diary with the initials VF, filled with scientific notes.

The creature runs away in the countryside, he takes refuge in a warehouse adjacent to a house, through the wooden beams he sees and hears the family.

Even though his heart is warmed by the family, he wants to be a part of it.

Being hungry he enters inside the house, where the creature meets a blind man, and a young girl both take care about the creature they give food and beverage and a copy of the poem "Paradise Lost" written by John Milton. The creature confesses to  the blind man that he is suffering and needs love, being conscious of the prejudices of the men.

This poem is crucial for his behaviour being an innocent child, where his creature doesn't care about him.

Victor abandons his creature to his destiny.

This act of tyranny guides the creature to evil, the creature swore to take revenge for the wrongs suffered. The good reemerge, the creature asks his terrestrial God to create a woman for him, Victor disagrees and abandons the creature for the second time, and burns his notes in the face of the creature.

Accidentally the creature kills the best friend of Victor.

He tries to kill Elizabeth for not being loved by his father.

Alphorns Frankenstein decides to repudiate his son for having created and abandoned the creature. Victor will die in the hand of Captain Walton.

The events narrated are based on the Novel “Frankenstein” written by Mary Shelley.

The story is not in chronological order.

 

CHARACTERS

The main characters are Victor Frankenstein and the creature.

Victor Frankenstein grew up in a wealthy Genevan family, He enrolled at the University of Ingolstadt and dedicated himself to chemistry and natural philosophy. Inspired by his mentor, Professor Waldman, he discovers the secret of animating inanimate matter.

His crazy studies led him to the realization of his main dream, that of giving life back to inanimate bodies.

He became a terrestrial god.

He gave a life to a corpse made of other bodies with a brain and sentiments, he created a child adult who needs to be driven and none leached to the creature, the differences between good and evil.

Suddenly he realized that he was a tyrant by inducing creatures to do evil due to the lack of good.

He did nothing to alleviate the suffering of his creature.

 

The creature needs to be loved and appreciated for what he is.

The only man who gave him a family for less than one hour was the blind man and an innocent child Maria. The creature read the poem "Paradise Lost" and he felt this poem as a part of his body, in the written words he felt his existential suffering.

 

Themes

The main themes are the solitude,  The human ambition to transcend physical as well as moral laws, the

responsibility of the Creator to his creature, isolation, prejudices, guilt, revenge.