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Of Wolves and Monsters
We recently watched Guillermo del Toro’s new film of Frankenstein. Many critics have noted that the movie hews more faithfully to Mary Shelley’s novel than most previous films and that del Toro humanizes the monster in a way seldom seen. Unfortunately, del Toro takes the opposite tack with wolves, which are merely a fantasy of the director as wolves do not appear in the book. In fact, del Toro seems to have gone out his way to paint an unfavorable portrait of wolves.
In the novel, one of the more beautiful parts is how the monster connects with an elderly blind man. “From your lips first have…
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