Essentially a stand in for a disfigured homeless person.

We still treat homeless people with the disgust and unkindness the monster is shown in the book.

Plus! In the books Victor has a loving family and his mother came from poverty and because of this she does a lot of charity work prior to her death. Which makes it especially egregious that Victor immediately abandons his disfigured “child” (metaphorical bastard). And that his monster is

Not only that but anything that served as character motivation was removed.

And instead of that we get random investor with syphilis plot line and wolves.

And the whole reason the family was impoverished in the books was because they helped a man escape from prison. The man had not committed any crimes, but was imprisoned for critiquing the government.

They then had to flee the country for breaking him out.

I even love romantasy and the film still disappointed me in that regard with how brief and forced that element was.

I am disappointed. OTL

And what is this critique of society replaced with? An overemphasized Elektra complex as Victor Frankenstein drinks milk constantly throughout the movie.

There is almost nothing resembling the actual plot of the book in the film (though I don’t mind the removal of the old timey racism).

For the ones who were with nothing to show for it.

In the book, Frankenstein’s monster talks about how from observing the impoverished family who’s shed he was hiding out in he came to learn that the world was made of two kinds of men. Men who were rich and of noble blood and men who weren’t and were thus forced to spend their lives slaving away

I dont really trust our food supplies going forward all things considered. I cant wait to start a mini-garden again too after the winter.

It is what it is

border over the past two years. No recent Administration has made any progress in reducing the chaos and desperation in Haiti.” pg 277

authoritarian kleptocracies in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela deny their people basic freedoms, violently and ruthlessly suppress any dissent, repress communities of faith, and generate such misery that hundreds of thousands of their citizens have attempted to cross our southern

victories from Mexico to Chile. These regimes are hostile to American interests and private enterprise, breed corruption, implement radical policies that will further impoverish their people and threaten their democracies, and are more open to striking partnerships with Communist China. Left-wing

fight against the external pressure of threats from abroad and address local regional security concerns.” pg 184

“Yet years of foreign aid have failed to bring peace, prosperity, and stability to the hemisphere. Poverty, joblessness, and social unrest have led to leftist electoral

as Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, and Ecuador, are either increasingly regional security threats in their own rights or are vulnerable to hostile extra-continental powers. The U.S. has an opportunity to lead these democratic neighbors to