Nightmare Alley<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Shape of Water\u201d), gives this tale a painterly beauty; every scene glows in uncanny light. And light, unexpectedly, is del Toro\u2019s most interesting choice here: Nearly all of the action takes place not during dark and stormy nights, but in bright daylight: This creature (played with eerie innocence by Jacob Elordi) may have been born in darkness, but he belongs to our world. A key scene that takes place in moonlight in Shelley\u2019s book \u2014 Victor, unexpectedly surprised in his bedroom, \u201cbeheld the wretch \u2014 the miserable monster whom I had created\u201d \u2014 here happens at daybreak; it\u2019s horror without shadows.<\/p>\nAll that light lets us better see del Toro\u2019s bold colors, particularly a lush blood-red that\u2019s everywhere in the film: Victor\u2019s ethereal, doomed mother, swathed in red velvet; the red bedding in which he falls into a troubled sleep; the unexpected stain of blood on a white wedding gown. Kate Hawley\u2019s costumes tell a story with color, particularly on the delicate Elizabeth (Mia Goth), the fianc\u00e9e of Victor\u2019s younger brother William (Felix Kammerer). She draws all eyes early on, an angelic vision in bright sky-blue; later, we see her wrapped in a murky green veil, as if peering through some miasmic fog. Even the weather seems to bring its own vivid palette: the searing yellow of sunlight, the gentle paleness of snow, the nuanced russet of a single autumn leaf as it floats away.<\/p>\n
Del Toro\u2019s story pays tribute to the Romantic era of writers from which Mary Shelley \u2014 there\u2019s a reading of a poem by Shelley\u2019s husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a moving quote from Lord Byron at the film\u2019s end. But, for all the corsets and horses and candles, it all feels strangely contemporary. \u201cThe world will hunt you and kill you, just for being who you are,\u201d the monster is told, as he tries desperately to find somewhere he might belong. This \u201cFrankenstein\u201d has no shortage of horrors, but it also finds notes of forgiveness and kindness; it\u2019s a monster movie with a soul.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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