As Criaturas de Almodóvar:: Uma possível ligação entre La Piel que Habito e Frankenstein de Mary Shelley

• Autores: Mónica Paiva
• Localización: Avanca / Cinema 2012 / Cine Clube de Avanca (dir.), 2012, ISBN 978-989-96858-2-6, págs. 475-479
• Idioma: varios idiomas
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• Resumen

  • In all of his movies Pedro Almodóvar tries to reach a kind of cinematic perfection. Described as a cinematicFrankenstein, the Spanish director has created his own version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Albeit inspired bythe novel Mygale by Thierry Jonquet, La Piel que Habito presents a clear connection with Shelley’s narrative inwhich the ideas of perfection and the boundaries between scientific advances and acting as if one were God areanalyzed and questioned.In the director’s first adventure in horror films, Antonio Banderas’ character deals with grief by transforming a maninto a copy of his dead wife, creating his own Creature, just like Victor Frankenstein. However, he does not feelconfined by the same moral limits, providing the film with a more psychologically complex level. Shelley’s first andonly book is a landmark of Gothic literature that questions Science and Humanities with a veil of terror through aCreature with no name but with a conscience and a reason far more sage than many wise men’s. Furthermore, itcontains characters that have not only inspired literature, but that are also present throughout cinema history.Although the film is not an adaptation of Frankenstein, this essay aims at presenting these and other aspects thatrelate the 19th century novel with this 21st century Spanish film.