Frozen wind, frozen sea, frozen ship.
An expedition to the North Pole encountered an iceberg, and everyone was trapped in the vast whiteness. Captain Wall disregarded the warning from the chief mate, and he wanted to get the immortal honor of reaching the North Pole at the cost of the limited lives of the entire crew.
At this moment, they heard another voice from this inaccessible place.
Roar.
Sent by the cold wind.
The sailors raised their guns.
It was a person, with disheveled hair and shabby clothes. Staggered forward and came to Captain Wall.
He said,
my name is Victor Frankenstein.
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What is a monster?
Why is it a monster?
Frankenstein in the novel is an ambitious scientist, and his purpose of creating Frankenstein is only to win admiration as a life maker. In the film, the director added a more humane description of the PhD’s motivation. In the narrative, the film traces its beginnings all the way back to Frankenstein’s childhood, portraying the image of a mother who loves her son and a father with superb medical skills, respectively, providing emotional and willful motives for Frankenstein’s later motives for creating Frankenstein. Possible.
The death of his mother made him a strong desire for a life that breaks the laws of nature; and the weakness of his father made him turn his eagerness to almost crazy eyes to science. The movie even uses smallpox and cholera as the social background, and death and timidity always impact the hearts of the audience. In such an environment, if you hold the key to "immortality," will you pierce the blood of Frankenstein with a silver needle?
The director succeeded in making us stop asking questions like "why did he create it?"
The plague and riots took away the lives of the university professors, Frankenstein took over all the professor's materials and equipment, but he was in awe of the experiment. He enthusiastically devoted himself to the preparation of the experiment. Just like the book said, a person was composed of "organs that can still function" from the corpses of several people, activated by electricity, and using amniotic fluid as the medium to give birth to the Monster---Science wack.
It is described in the novel: his face is like a withered yellow leaf, his two lips are a straight black line, his eyes are sunken in his eye sockets, his height is 2.5 meters. Frankenstein described in his diary: Many birth defects, ugliness, and hatred by others
And it's dead.
"It" is dead.
This is the first time the creator of Frankenstein has called him.
The first description of it.
And look forward to.
* * The
Friend Family Father
weird escaped, avoiding Frankenstein's disgust and chasing by the people in the market. Hidden to someone in the forest. He avoided the eyes and ears of his family all day long, secretly living with them.
Shortly before watching this work, I watched the movie "Van Helsing" (also called the Exorcist), which is a rare example of a highly integrated combination of different elements such as vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein. The Frankenstein in "Van Helsing", after being created, took the doctor who was killed by the vampire Count Dracula to escape the pursuit of the villagers, and then lived in seclusion underground. Although he was indignant and painful for human beings' ruthlessness, Van Helsing made it to him: I have chased and killed evil things all my life, but in this (albeit extremely ugly) guy, I can't feel the evil evaluation. It can be seen that the weirdo has always maintained a harmless heart.
So when I saw weirdos secretly helping a family in the wooden house gather winter crops and chop wood. When the children naively believed that the forest elves were helping, I secretly glanced at the surrounding audience and found that the corners of their mouths were more or less general. Smiled.
Everyone believes that weird people are actually kind creatures.
At least it was at first.
The weirdo continues to hide, maybe he really thought about it, staying here forever. He followed the children in the wooden house to learn literacy. In fact, for him, this was just recalling the knowledge of the previous owner of the brain. The first words he learned were
"friends", "home" and "father"
. People around them said, isn't this all weirdos want?
No, it should be: even if he gets one of them, he will treat it as everything.
So, he has nothing.
He almost had a friend once. In the novel, the weirdo finally couldn't hold back and began to take the initiative to contact humans. A small detail was added in the movie. The landlord of the wooden house came to collect debts and beat the grandfather who was only in the house at that time. In fact, the old man had already noticed the existence of the weird person, and asked him: Why are you hiding?
Weird Answer: Because people are afraid of me.
Why are you afraid of you?
Because they are beautiful, I am ugly.
The old man said: My hands can replace my eyes, let me touch you.
This is undoubtedly the plot that makes me most nervous. The old man's hand slowly slid across the slit in the strange man's cheek, and I think he had already conceived a frightening image in his mind. I waited with the weirdo. The old man gave us a faint hope, and we were afraid that he would extinguish this hope with his own hands.
The old man slowly put down his hand and said: It's pitiful.
How good would it be if the movie ended at this moment?
In the same place as the plot of the novel, the family who rushed back drove the weird away, and the weird fled to the depths of the forest, sitting on a tree trunk and crying. Such pain, even in a world where there are no weird people, the corners of the eyes will still be wet when I think about it at night. , The heart will still tremble.
He found that the children had left gifts for their fantasy elves at the door, and hurried back. I guess he wants to explain, I won't hurt you, I hope I can coexist with you. But people go to the building to be empty.
The value of the opportunity is that it can change many things. In fact, there is no chance, and many things can be changed.
The weird man began to read Frankenstein's diary, understood his life experience, and determined to retaliate against the man who gave him a body that would only be hated by others and a heart that only felt pain.
Frankenstein! ! ! ! ! ! !
I am coming! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
* *
Bride
needs to mention Elizabeth here.
In the novel, she is Frankenstein's wife, and the feeling is enriched in the movie, starting with Elizabeth losing her parents and being the adopted daughter of the Frankenstein family. In other words, unlike the novel, Elizabeth is not Frankenstein's wife at the beginning, but along the plot, her love with Frankenstein is constantly being tested. Elizabeth in the play is a strong and stubborn woman. She didn't really understand Frankenstein's research, but she intuitively felt that it would bring misfortune to him and them. She suffered from lovesickness, but she never shed tears, even if she said goodbye to Frankenstein. But because of his sentence: Don't leave, and walk towards death, and the deeper pain after death.
In fact, when I saw Elizabeth, I was sure that she would die. Perhaps it was because Frankenstein, who was rescued by Captain Wall, was a person at the beginning of the movie. What's more, we decided from the beginning that the price Frankenstein will pay will be much more than he can bear.
The weirdo found Frankenstein's mansion and first killed Frankenstein's brother William. (In the book he is the son of Victor Frankenstein, because the film arranged for him and Elizabeth to be unmarried, so William became the last child of Victor’s dead mother) The director meticulously arranged another detail, which is when William appeared in Weird When in front of him, the weird man walked towards him hopefully, but the child ran away with a scream of fright. A necklace made of Frankenstein's photograph fell out of his body, and was picked up by the sad weird and turned into anger.
William's death made Frankenstein aware of the coming of revenge. At this time, a strange man appeared in front of him, took him to the inaccessible ice lake, and made a request to him.
Make a woman like me.
Only she will face me and cherish me.
In this heart of mine, there is the deepest love you can't imagine.
There are also the most terrifying anger you can't imagine.
If one of them is not satisfied, I will allow the other to wreak havoc.
If I do, what are you going to do? Frankenstein asked.
I will live in seclusion with her to the North Pole, away from humans, and no longer appear in front of you.
Frankenstein agreed.
But when the weirdo chose the corpse of the young girl Justine as the raw material, Frankenstein flatly refused. The kind-hearted Justine once had a crush on Frankenstein and encouraged Elizabeth to stick to their love. When the weird came, she was framed and killed William and was hanged brutally.
You said it was just material.
no.
So the weirdo left angrily, with the curse of Frankenstein's newly married. Frankenstein took Elizabeth and fled outside the city. Despite the high security, there is still no way to stop the weirdo from coming to the bride who is alone.
Looking at Elizabeth's blood-red left chest, and the heart still beating in the hands of the weirdo, Frankenstein ran back to the laboratory frantically, dismembering, reorganizing, and electrifying the bodies of Elizabeth and Justine.
live! ! ! live! ! ! live! ! ! ! !
The corpse stood up. He put on her a wedding dress.
He called her: Elizabeth.
He begged her: say, my name.
Then they danced.
At this time, only with a touch and shock can you appreciate this weird dance. Elizabeth had doubts and confusion in her eyes, her beauty no longer existed, even more so than weirdos, Frankenstein was completely intoxicated, just like before, forgetting everything and forgetting me.
I think, is he finally crazy?
Or maybe he finally woke up.
Come, my bride.
The weirdo reached out to her.
Say, my name.
Frankenstein pleaded.
Elizabeth finally walked slowly towards the weird, but kept turning back. In the end, under the competition of the two men, they laughed, grinned, and stroked their deformed cheeks.
This is the most climactic part of the movie. Elizabeth raised the candlestick high, lit her dirty body, and then ran across the entire aisle. The flame spread with her to create a sinful mansion, and then burned with herself.
I finally failed to understand Elizabeth's motives. And whether she still loves Victor.
* *
Name
From then on, the weirdo went northward alone. In order to end the evil he created, Frankenstein tracked the weirdo to the North Pole. Encountered Captain Wall who regarded his death as home.
After telling the story, he was exhausted and died on the boat.
In the original work, Frankenstein died together with the weird in a decisive battle, but the director arranged for Frankenstein to die as hard as he could, reminding me of a story about a pharaoh that I had read a long time ago.
I can’t remember exactly what the story is. What impressed me most is that the traitor cursed by the pharaoh tried his best to lift the curse with the protagonists, and the curse was Frankenstein and the word that countless people pursued:
immortality.
With an immortal body, suffering from physical aging and mental exhaustion, there will be no rest.
It can be seen that being alive can also be harder than dying. Death can be easier than life.
The arrangement of the novel gave Frankenstein the honor of being a hero. But the director didn't think so. The film portrayed Frankenstein as a redeemer. Give your loved ones, friends, and even your own lives for your mistakes.
Isn't it the Friend Family Father?
Only then did I find that the film’s careful arrangement, in fact, the three words that the weirdo learned, happened to be the price Frankenstein paid for the sad life he created.
It is also the whole pain of that life.
In the wooden hut, the weird begged for a friend, he asked his creator for a bride, and was finally hunted down by his father.
These three words, he dreamed of, never gained, and kept losing.
Seeing the end, I couldn't help thinking, why do you want to add the captain? Just as a testimony, maybe it is more direct to take Frankenstein's self-report?
Captain Wall didn't believe it at first, but he still wanted to go to the North Pole, when the eccentric got into the room where Frankenstein was. Crying bitterly.
The captain asked: Why are you crying?
Weird answer: He is my father.
The captain asked again: Who are you?
I am in awe. He is talking about who instead of what, and he treats weird people as one person.
Weird Answer: He never named me.
It suddenly became clear that the so-called monsters actually meant those creatures without names.
In the Hong Kong version of the movie "The White-haired Witch", the White-haired Witch turns to save Zhuo. Ling Yunfeng is in grief and indignation and asks: I raised you to teach you, so why betray? What did this man give you? !
The witch replied: A name.
In the fourth stormy sea of "Pirates of the Caribbean", the priest fell in love with the mermaid at first sight, and when the mermaid was cast aside, he helped him:
"She has a name! Her name is Emily." In the
end, the mermaid returned death.
For those creatures, names are too precious.
Because it has a name, it means that its existence has been recognized, even if it is the only one who gave it a name.
I suddenly remembered what Bai Long said to Qianxun:
Remember your name so that I can go home.
* * *
Home
Captain Wall read out a prayer for Frankenstein, and at the end, the chief mate suggested that the weirdo also give a speech.
At this moment, the warm wind hit, it seems that waiting for everyone to finish listening to this story for too long, the ice cube burst.
The sailors plunged into the cold water and headed for the boat.
The weirdo picks up the torch that has not been extinguished.
Come with us!
The captain yelled.
I think, after all, some people are willing to treat each other like others.
But the weirdo did not answer. His heart is probably frozen by the cold wind of the Arctic Circle! Maybe earlier.
The coldest things can no longer be melted by heat. The only way to shake is to hit, and the result is nothing but bones.
The weirdo swam to Frankenstein's body, held up the torch, like his bride, and lowered. In the interweaving of ice and fire, I closed my eyes.
He has arrived home, there is no need to leave.
Everyone was watching the weird people on the boat, and the first officer asked again: Captain, where are we going now?
Captain replied: Go home.
I only know that the captain has been changed, by this weird man who has been cast aside by the world, and perhaps, there is also the doctor who created him.
Maybe he suddenly felt the weight of life.
Maybe he didn't want this story to be buried by ice and snow along with them.
In the end, we will return home together.
* * *At the
end, I
only planned to write a little bit, and it was nine pages without knowing it. What I can guarantee is that I have no extra words, just as there is no extra lens in this movie.
The film was watched in the general education class, and the teacher did some guidance to get this kind of sentiment. This is the only time I have been there. There are no names, but there are no empty seats. People are standing in the back row. In addition to the director, I also want to thank the person who translated it as "Frankenstein".
*The
weirdo is still in that forest, looking down at the little flower in his hand.
The child in the wooden house approached him.
What is your name?
I have no name.
how come? I'll give you a name... OK?
[over]
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