Frankenstein

by Fidel Delos Reyes
2009-31842

I think that the biggest moral issue in this film is the notion of scientists playing God. At the time that this movie was made at around the early-mid 1900's and the books publication in the early 1800's, people were seeing the rapid advancement in the fields of science. It is not surprising for one to think, how far will science be able to go? The act of bringing the dead back to life already has its moral issues, but resurrecting the dead with parts from different corpses and using science to animate it? You will have a moral headache. The problem that a lot of religion would have with this film is the idea of the soul. Will the resurrected person obtain its soul from the previous owner of the body? if so, which one? or does it even have a soul? people think that this is an act crime against nature because the dead should remain dead. This is a common theme in a horror film because it is hard not to imagine what kind of life you will live when you are turned into a zombie like creature. I think that the scariest thing in the movie is that it is a science fiction, because if the creature was resurrected by magic it would have turned out differently. But because he was resurrected by science there will always be this thought that maybe, just maybe this can really happen in the future.
I think that the movie made him dumb so that he will be stripped away of communication and reasoning. The villagers in the movie feared the creature due to its appearance and because the creature could not really tell them what he is due to the inability to speak the people got frightened for the hideous thing that they don't know. it worked well because it made the film showed how people are frightened for things that they don't really understand and can easily think that it is a threat to them.