Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
I am really fond of the Frankenstein story so I worried about what Del Toro might change that would affect the ultimate message. I needn't have. It turns out that he loves the story as much as I do and somehow managed to stay true to the book while whirling around with his own different details a lot of the time.
Best of all, the point of the story was articulated enough to be sure that we really got it. Really good.
100 Movies Every Catholic Should See has a really good review with it's eye on Catholicism (natch).
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