On paper, you wouldn’t think that a movie like Barbie and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein would have anything in common. But then you think about it for two seconds and you can kind of see it.
Frankenstein is a beautiful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s work but del Toro’s take on the Creature, played incredibly by Jacob Elordi, reminded me of a very important aspect of Barbie. Without spoiling too much (for a movie based on a book that has been out for over 200 years), a lot of the Creature’s arc within the film is figuring out what his purpose is.
