Frankenstein

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If you can handle English, attentive to what it offers us online Opening this week at the National Theater in London (until thursday 7/5). A classic of the gothic novel made into a theater 2011 with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller as protagonists and Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) in the direction: ¡Frankenstein! Does it seem little to you?? Well, in a display of virtuosity and know how, the two actors, that are very surplus, the roles were exchanged monster and the scientist Victor Frankenstein so that we can enjoy them playing both roles. From the first scene, the economic and artistic power of the London institution is clear., reference on the world stage: the makeup of our monstrous being full of scars, the decoration (a giant womb from which the creature is born to take its first steps), overhead lighting with hundreds of bulbs… A lot, These English people invest a lot of money in culture and the result is absolutely masterful, as is Cumberbatch's interpretation of this monster who learns everything as he goes. to walk, that metal burns, that books are not eaten, and that he is going to have to endure the contempt (generated by fear) of the people who cross your path, also from its own creator, a vain scientist who wanted to play God and ran into the wall of ethics. Under the protection of a charitable soul, Mr. De Lacey, he monster will learn to read and write, about dreams, prejudices, revenge, loneliness and love, and will know the evil of men. Are men born from original sin and must be redeemed?, or they are born pure and it is society that shapes them?, De Lacey poses at one point. Mary Shelly seemed to have it straight because, if something dominates this monster virginal It is the art of imitation, and that's how you learn to hate, to lie and humiliate, imitating humans. Respond to goodness with goodness and evil with evil. It's just one of the big themes of this science fiction classic that spoke to us, already in 1818, of the fight between force and reason, and the dangers of a science that, dressed as Prometheus, dares to rob God of his omnipotence. Pure delight. S.M.