Who’s the monster now?
"Frankenstein" by Guillermo del Toro, 2025. (Spoiler alert for those who have not watched Frankenstein. Watch it, it's amazing.) I recall a poem on Instagram that said, “Let Death be kinder than man” with a bunch of animated pictures of different animals about to die from man’s intentional or unintentional cruelty. For example, a deer crossing the road at night while car lights rapidly approach, a mouse stuck on a glue trap, a pig waiting to be slaughtered… you get the idea. Just last night, while watching Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein , that line popped into my head. In the movie, Victor's son, "the monster" could never meet Death. At the beginning of its life, you wonder as a viewer if the monster even has a soul. Some characters wonder that too. And as the movie progresses, you realize it does have a soul. It is no longer a something , but a someone - a someone who cannot die. The monster, portrayed by Jacob Elordi, was pure innocence, just lik...
