Frankenstein

Reaction on Frankenstein:

The Film Frankenstein (1931) is about a young scientist who desires to create a human being out of electrical devices and technological stuff.  Of course, he perfected the experiment but his peculiar actions bothered people around him. Because of the incompetence of his assistant and some flaws on gathering resources, the “manufactured monster” turned out to look grotesque but with an innocent mind. With the monster’s appearance, people can’t help but feel they are in danger when they see the monster so they do all their means to find and eventually, destroy him.

In terms of morality, the main issue to be pondered on in this film is the existence of a creature without God. Some commentaries on the story say that the creator of this would like to conclude that spiritual, moral and even scientific development can be attained through shedding of dogmatic beliefs- and that is to say- the elimination of God.  From this, all that can be said is that people think differently.  I know people who think that science holds all the explanation of everything under the sun. I also know some people who believed that God proved his existence in science.

For one thing, fabrication of some parts in the original version (the book) is needed to spice up a movie. I think that the monster was made dumb to justify the fact that only humans can have the gift of speech and logical thinking. They were right in this portion since this is more believable and credible even though it is already a science fiction. The human mind is everything that it is.  

And the morals on scientific research? – it is only guided by one principle: “ and it harm none, do what you will.”

Alastair Erfe

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