More than once, incensed characters accuse the mad doctor of being the true “monster” in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” — not to be confused with Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” even though this latest adaptation hews closer to the author’s intentions than any previous version put to screen.
What is a film director if not a man who plays God, and who among that circle identifies more with monsters than Mr. del Toro, the visionary Mexican director who started his career with “Cronos” (a “Frankenstein”-adjacent dark fairy tale) and earned an Oscar for the respect he paid outsiders in “The Shape of Water”?
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