Honest thoughts I had first time watching Frankenstein about Victor before thinking about the possibility he’s embellishing and or lying during his story telling.
First view believing Victor’s pov, I felt sorry for him, but didn’t excuse his actions or his dumbness of lying or attempted murder.
I believed he did go back in an attempt and moral regret to save the Creature.
We get several times of him saying he hasn’t slept and people saying he looks unwell. He’s also taking care of a full grown man that’s only a little more then a baby than anything.
I did think Elizabeth was interested in a relationship with Victor and found it odd until thinking about it how she broke it off with him until you take in account he focuses more on her instead of his wish to finish his project. Once she breaks it off, he’s fully focused again and enraged as well.
Elizabeth suddenly being in love with the Victor made me view her as undeceive and unfavorable.
But after I remembered the fact Victor was narrating until the second part though I began to question all of that and started the second time I watched it questioning everything.
When that’s taken into consideration the whole first part, you see the cracks before the second half were we see what is more likely who Victor is.
But then again we are seeing that part as the Creature’s pov and the only true part we see of either of them is when they are not telling their stories.
We’re seeing in the second half leading up to the end of the Creature’s story how the Creature has been viewing Victor since Victor attempted to kill him.
When I took both into consideration and picked part the truths and embellishments, a more possible accurate story comes through.
Victor views Elizabeth as a possible love. She may never have seen Victor the same but noticed how he was acting more then a friend she would have accepted and laid down boundaries that Victor in his mind changed to her rejecting him and he sees the time he was falling for her as a distraction and blaming her for doing so on both accounts.
He views his creation as amazing and beautiful and even shows love to a point with giving him a blanket.
But after that, we see a change how he acts around him. He makes excuses to lock him up, to lie and blame him for murder. Even he sees his lie as a lie and doesn’t give an excuse to it when he admits it.
He already told how Elizabeth’s Uncle slipped and fell. Then admits he lied that the Creature did it. He bot out right emitting it, but he’s telling on himself how he’s building reasons to get rid of his creation without question.
I believe he was unwell and in a state of mental unwellness when Elizabeth and William arrived and he took the opportunity to assure himself through them he was right in killing his creation as well as building an excuse.
It doesn’t excuse how he beat or kept the Creature in such sleeping and loving conditions, but he again admits what he has done. He admits he became like his father that he hated so much and beat him.
What we don’t know is how long it took for him to begin doing the beating part. Was it sudden, slow, or right away?
I imagine he had a triggering moment in frustration and took it out on the Creature and increased the action over time.
I do believe he turned back in regret to save the Creature, one moment of clear mindedness and regret.
There isn’t a good reason otherwise why he would have turned back and risked injury or death not knowing his brother and Elizabeth would return to check on him.
Now this could be a lie and he was thrown while leaving and made it up to get sympathy for his loss of leg, but he had already established a lie with William that his creation had killed and Elizabeth would not believe him I’m sure. It could be to try and gain sympathy from the Captain he is telling, but what’s the point in that, especially after admitting already he lied about the murder.
In the end, it feels likely a truth.
When we see the Creature’s pov, it is likely we are seeing Victor more violent and appearing to intentionally shoot Elizabeth when he was trying to shot the Creature due to bias of his past interactions with Victor and the beatings.
He sees those who would harm him as monsters and very violent compared to those who show him kindness and love.
It’s likely the hunters and wolves did attack and harm him, but through the Creature’s eyes it maybe seen as more relentless and without reason and extremely violent. He even sees his own actions as such when he is angry and defensive.
He sees that side of himself as violent and doesn’t shy away from the truth.
Doesn’t mean that the hunters didn’t try to kill him, but it may appear more frightening, violent and monstrous due to his pov.
He sees Victor as a monster and the reason Elizabeth is dead and why he is blamed.
Victor very well blamed him again for a death, but it may not have been in the tone we hear said in the moment.
We see how the Creature sees Victor making excuses and being a monster. Visually and audio wise.
At the end we see two broken men as they truly are, no longer from their own pov.
We see them as broken and full of sadness and they finally see that of each other.
They ask and give forgiveness and make up in heartbreak.
This at least is ways I have viewed the movie.
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