I just watched it. Is it woke, I don't recall seeing a black person in it. So the casting represents the population of Europe at the time. Is it gay or feminist, not really. Victor has weird attachment issues with his mom and the creature, but nothing overtly gay or feminist in it. I didn't see anything really pushing a modern progressive message.
It has Del Toro's gothic aesthetic. There were shots that showed deep green lighting I think are in every Del Toro movie. It has a lot of gore. People are treated like blood bags throughout the movie.
I think it's a good movie with some pacing issues. I think some parts are too slow and other parts happen quickly with little build-up. My biggest gripe about the movie is the Elizabeth character. She really doesn't add much and her instant attraction and love for the creature is weird. And personally I don't understand the fascination with Mia Goth, I think she's odd looking and a fair actress at best.
TL:DR - Frankenstein is a decent adaptation with gore and no overt modern progressivism.
There you go. That's the hook.
There seems to have been a recent push in the mainstream (or at least, from what I've observed?) to heavily convince women that they should be into bestiality of some kind.
Maybe I've just been out of the loop for a lot of material aimed at women over the years, but various social commentary content creators I follow have noted how hard they have been pushing the women-with-monsters angle in media recently, especially romance novels.
Have they always been this way? Maybe. But from back what I remember, blokes like Fabio used to grace the covers of romance novels frequently, not minotaurs and centaurs.
Del Toro also did the Shape of Water, which was also about a wench falling in love with a creature. Seems like a common theme with some of his more recent films.
While that's probably the subtext, my male mind interpreted it as Elizabeth being a bleeding heart who saw the monster as something innocent. And indeed, it was at first. Dangerous, but a true blank slate. A newborn baby in the body of a juggernaut. Her infatuation of the creature coming from maternal instinct rather than lust.
Of course, that's what I saw in it. What Del Toro intended, and what the female audience will get out of it are probably very different.
That's fine until her death scene where she starts talking about falling in love so quickly and all
That's a fair assessment of what could have been intended, and a good faith interpretation.
Mine was more of the pessimistic impression based on current cultural trends.
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Women aren't that different from men. They just can be more subtle about things.
Look at the pornography problem that men have gone through in the last decades. Where "softcore" stuff was enough for men to pay money just a generation or two ago, and now we have men with hyper fetishes that barely even make sense and an addiction to the dopamine rush of gooning to it.
Women's stuff went through much a similar path, where they dabbled in monster stuff that was still mostly human (the 90s-00s vampire craze was built on this), but it was all still heavily into the romantic, emotional angle that would be their version of "softcore" with Fabio.
Then they literally had hardcore BDSM books reach mainstream popularity and normalcy with 50 Shades of Grey. That became the baseline for their masturbation fantasies. So of course something already established like "monster fucking" would explode into some extreme levels afterward to keep chasing that taboo dopamine high.