The Bride of Frankenstein is an
American horror film released on 1935. It is directed by James Whale, adapted
from Mary Shelley’s novel entitled Frankenstein. It is the sequel of
Frankenstein, also by James Whale, which was released on 1931.
The movie shows
that even before, people, especially those belonging to the scientific
community, have been attempting to create life. And in order to accomplish this,
they resorted to immoral and gruesome ways. And in this case, Frankenstein and
Dr. Pretorius used human corpse to create a mate for the monster, a creature
they created using the same method.
I found this movie to be quite similar to The
Fly, a movie we also watched in class, in a way that both movies generally feature
scientists trying to meddle in things not meant to be meddled in just for the
sake of the success of their experiments and gaining knowledge.
I think that the line that separates
morality and science should always be clear. And people counducting experiments
using immoral means should always remember that they are humans first and
scientists second.
I have read the book by a couple of
years ago, but since what we’ve watched in class was the sequel, I couldn’t
know for sure if there are any differences between the original book and the movie Frankenstein. But the monster in the book could
talk and could participate in coherent conversations while the monster in the
movie was made dumb. The creators of the movie probably had a number of reasons
for doing this, but my guess is by making the monster inarticulate, he became
more terrifying because he wouldn’t be able to to justify his existence and explain
his actions, meaning there wouldn’t be any way for the normal people to
understand him. Furthermore, since he couldn’t hold a sound conversation, he
became more seperated from the community. Because of these, he was shown in a
bad light. And this helped in sending the message to the viewers, which is to
never meddle in human life because the results will only be catastrophic and,
in the end, unsuccessful.
Barbosa, Camille Anne C.
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