The 1994 version of the online review is the final version of the original, but after reading the original, there are still major changes. The biggest faith may be the same narrative structure, that is, the memory of the protagonist Victor shows the entire story, because I haven’t read it. Other versions (I don't even dare to watch it), so I don't dare to comment on it. According to my memory (because I watched it many years ago), the difference is that the protagonist in the original book went astray in the process of studying and eager to prove his talent and value and created a monster, while the protagonist in the film is A doctor who has mastered the technique of resurrecting the dead; in the part of creating another female monster at the request of the monster, the whole process and the inner struggle and pain brought by the original work are borne by Victor himself, and in the film In the movie, his wife also participated. Because of this, the technology of creating strangers in the movie and the original is also different. The technology in the movie is closer to "cloning." Interdependence, they can feel the pain that each other suffers, and live and die together, and this has become the key to the last desperate Victor to destroy the monster he made by himself, which is not the case in the book.
The strange thing is that books and movies are different in different places. In the movie, the sympathy for the monster is the main reason for the touching. His tragic experience is not accepted by humans. He prays to Victor for the sincerity of a partner. Now I want to come to Robert De Niro's acting skills must have played a great role (I am really a very subjective person). In the original work, Victor narrates the entire story in the first person. A large number of direct and indirect psychological descriptions through the description of the scenery make people fear, anger, frustration, and despair with him. As the plot develops, a lot of sympathy comes to Victor. On this side, the constantly emphasized monster's ugly and abominable appearance and successive deaths basically offset the innocence and kindness it had at the beginning, and greatly weakened the sympathy for it. However, just as the monster said to Captain Walton, through the story described by Victor, it is impossible to summarize the suffering and torment it has encountered. Yes, the two sides are only going to perish in mutual torture.
I completely ignore the translator's analysis and interpretation of the political significance of this work. I just feel that going against nature will inevitably lead to natural retribution, nothing more.
This book, known as the first science fiction novel, is worth reading, and this movie is also worth watching.
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