What a creepy doctor
So I’ve read this story twice now and it just creeps me out about a guy who makes a man from spare parts. Does anyone remember Weird Science? Yeah this is way weirder… maybe not but still strange. The whole idea of taking the body parts of dead people and re-animating them is really bizarre, and certainly still in the vein of science fiction. I haven’t heard of any modern day Lazaruses let alone a bunch of body parts coming back to life. No matter what, as hard as I try to think about what I imagined the characters as in the original text I always think of Robert De Niro as the monster, whatever I thought of the first time I read the book is gone now.
Other than the fact that the story kind of makes me uneasy in the beginning, the same feeling I get from war amps robots or drugged muppets, the rest of the story is really quite good and I can’t help but feel bad for the monster and the doctor at the same time. The monster in his or it’s childlike ways is simply lost and looking for companionship and acceptance. The scene with the Swiss family up in the woods is the catalyst to his slip off the deep end as well as my favorite scene in the whole story. While Victor I feel bad for because his science, through the monster, ends up killing Victor’s brother and then later his wife Elizabeth (by choking), although the film’s depiction of her death is much more heartrending (oh no a pun!) a-la Lloyd Christmas (minus the doggy bag).
I must say I am looking forward to the presentation today to simply see how the science of this story compares with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea which is the novel myself and Fantastic Frick will be covering. Well that’s it for now. Till next time.
