Marin Ireland Photo: IFC FilmsOne could never faultMary Shelley for a lack of imagination, just a lack of available technology: Her 1818 “Frankenstein” offers no pseudo-scientific explanation for its Creature’s reanimation, only some vague primal force harnessed by the book’s title character.
It was the movies, beginning in 1931, that suggested electricity as a means of fusing humans out of spare parts.
What is suggested by the remarkable “birth/rebirth” is how Shelley’s story—its mythos, at any rate—can itself be brought back to vibrant life, time after time, by torquing modern medicine into increasingly plausible horror.
The Shelley blueprint—which locates the fear factor in every scientific leap that humans make as they inevitably play God—is always paved with good scientific intentions.
Rose and Celie mean well.
Persons:
Marin, Shelley, Frankenstein ”, Laura Moss, Brendan J, ”, Rose, Judy Reyes, —
Organizations:
IFC
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Marin Ireland