frankenstein (2025) is a movie about the cycle of violence and the inevitability of violence and about the miracle of being kind. it is a beautiful and touching adaptation that takes a unique view of some of the story’s focal points while staying true to the novel’s themes. it is also a movie that aims to remind us that the original creature textually had long flowing locks, for which I think we should all be thanking del toro specifically

"Isaac laughs remembering "One time we were looking at the monitor and Guillermo said to me, 'A European would never make this movie that we're making. This is a Latino-telenovela version of the story. It is not a coincidence that my Victor Frankenstein isn't being played by an English person, it's being played by Oscar Isaac Hernández from Guatemala." Speaking in Spanish with his director was comforting to Isaac. "It was truly the first time I felt like I was making something with a family member. Even though its Mary Shelley, and the story takes place in Geneva and Scotland, I felt so connected to my heritage. It bubbled up from the earth. It felt like an ancestral journey for me." [Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro]

WHO ELSE UP FRANKEN THEY STEIN RN

The Creature calling itself Viktor and following Viktor around is so much more tragic when you know how babies develop and how newborns don't yet realise they and their mothers are two separate people. And one of the first things babies realise about themselves is that they're a whole separate person. And one of the first things they do when they start developing as a person is find out they have hands and play with them and with textures and start exploring. And when they want to start talking, they put their hands and fingers on their parents lips and throats to figure out how that sound is coming out of there and then they start imitating. Guillermo Del Toro nailed every single step of human development in such a beautiful celebration of life.

And Viktor abused the crap out of the poor creature for not being smart enough when it was only following natural developmental milestones. Because, like most men, like his own father, he wanted to create life but he wasn't interested in raising it beyond that and instead wanted it to be born a doctor ready to show the world how smart Viktor is for creating a carbon copy of his brain except in a stronger immortal body. Elizabeth gave him five minutes of love and let him explore how sounds come out of her mouth and he started talking.

Idk why some people are complaining about the movie being different from the book when the essence is literally the same, Viktor created life as if it were a godly feat and not something women have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and then he abandoned that life as deadbeat dads do. And that abandonment is what created a monster out of an innocent souls who could have become a beautiful being had it been nurtured. That's literally what Mary Shelley wrote. She would have been proud of this story. On top of being an incredibly gorgeous visual story, the narrative is very loyal to the point Shelley wanted to make.

"To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love"

AAUAUGAGHHH YHIS IS BEAUITUFL

Frankenstein 2025 was beautiful, cried a little (at least)

Every detail was so thoughtfully placed on set and in dialog and in everything.. .

Charlie Kirk was in support of twelve year olds watching public executions, said that if his hypothetical ten year old daughter was raped, he would force her to carry the baby, said empathy was "a made up new-age term that does a lot of damage", and said that gun deaths were the cost of the second amendment.

Men like Charlie Kirk are the reason a third of my state's obstetricians left. Men like Charlie Kirk are why maternal deaths have risen 33% in Texas.

Men like Charlie Kirk killed Josseli Barnica and Neveah Crain, and thousands of others I don't know the names of.

Just because you can't see the blood on their hands doesn't mean it's not there.

What the hell is going on in the LGBTQ+ community lately

Maybe I'm too deep into a bubble or maybe I'm only now seeing the weird side of the community, but the amount of biphobia, aro/acephobia, transmedicalism, anti-transmasculinity, lesbians hating on trans lesbians and people who wanna separate the TQ+ from the LGB on my dash lately is incredible.

Why are we infighting at such a critical time

Why do we have to micromanage who's allowed to play with us like we're 5 year olds picking tag teams

None of you are more mature or more palatable to people who hate queer people if you reject parts of the community or modern developments of labels.

It's not in favor of our striving for freedom if you break free from one cage just to impose another upon yourself.

Many of y'all need to take a lesson in fluidity and acceptance. Sit yourselves down in class next to the homophobes and transphobes, because stubborn single-mindedness is not exclusive to people who aren't queer.