What I like in art is its thinking, boosting and energizing power to our mental grasp. Besides, the voice of art is very robust, however dubious at the same time. You can perceive it however you like and feel it, prejudiced by your own real circumstances, your moral sensibility at that moment, or just enjoy it excluding any reasoning and logic behind. Besides, nobody can say you perceive it wrong. Had a bite of it last week, the slice of my birth day present. “Frankenstein Genskabt”(Frankenstein reborn) was the art. Watched it with pleasure. Couldn’t stay away from writing my own reflection upon it, as it made me think, fantasize, imagine and criticize.
The story behind “Frankenstein genskabt” is loosely based on the classic story by Mary Shelley- a scientific man, named Frankenstein (played by Anders W. Berthelsen), wants to create an artificial man. Frankenstein, a pathetic scientist, perceived himself as a looser and was about to take his own life. He didn’t succeed in the attempt because a young, very strange girl from Russia, Kamchatka, Elena (Danica Curcic), came from nowhere to rescue his life. She inspires him to think bigger. She is innocent and naive, as an angel. She is poor and funny. However, as the story developed, I started questioning whether she was actually an angel or a devil? What were her motives to inspire and support him? And the way how she inspires him, is the dubious one. If she was not a devil, was she then send by the devil?
Speaking of the devil. This Russian girl has a rich uncle (Lars Brygmann), who lives in a castle, where the experiments take place. Her uncle puts an interesting dimension to the play, appearing almost at the end. His role in that story was so dubious, that it makes me want to watch it again. To be honest, I have underestimated his role in the story, however, as I started to analyze this play, he made me to look at the whole story from another perspective- he is a seducer, a liaer and a manipulator- and does strange things to people. Was he a monster in that story?
Like in the classical story, Frankenstein creates a man, a monster- like in the classical one- an ugly one (played by Nicolaj Kopernikus) . However, there is a modern twist to it: the ugliness comes not from the outside, but from the inside. He created a monster, of a man who was used to be his friend and his colleague, who took his own life triggered by odd circumstances. Another twist to it: his ugliness comes not from the beginning of his new life, but it comes along as he ages. So here is another question: who is to blame to his ugliness?
At the end, I have not reached any answers to own questions. They are still opened to me: Who was the real monster? What does monster mean at all? We have all at least once seen a monster in our boss, or parent, or spouse. We even call our kids “little monsters”. Is there a monster in each of us?
In my opinion, I have noticed some parallels to our real life, the sins that we do, without even paying attention to it.
We do not know, where is an angles, where is a devil among us. We don’t know which actions might create a monster. We are being manipulated, or manipulate people. Our achievement, as small and as big, are being stolen. We listen to the wrong voices. We trust the wrong people. We seduce, tempt, criticize and create stereotypes. All these sins are compacted in our small little lives, like they were compacted in that little play.
Yes, the story is actually quite depressing and “ugly”- it’s like a reminder about our cruel life. But to be honest, I saw beauty in that ugliness, which made me in a good mood at the end. But I will stay silent about it- YOU SHOULD WATCH IT. It’s WORTH WATCHING IT!!!!
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