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When considering the works of John Martin, one can’t help but see that he’s not an artist who paints scenes, but rather one who builds worlds, and when he turned his attention to the subjects of Satan, Hell and the apocalypse, he didn’t portray evil as a character, he engineered it as a system, an enormous, crushing structure that’s already seen the collapse of rebellion and the beginning of punishment.
Guillermo del Toro has finally done it. After decades of circling the idea, sketching monsters in notebooks, dropping hints in interviews, his long-awaited adaptation of Frankenstein has arrived — and it’s every bit the dark, melancholic dream you’d expect from him. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the Creature, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth, with Netflix backing it on a reported budget of around US$120 million.
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