PROMPT = 3) Does this film correspond to your personal vision of the present and/or the future? Why or why not?
Frankenstein is a clearly dystopian piece that reflects the consequences of Man's greatest ambition: the desire to defy God and, in so doing, surpass him. Doctor Frankenstein rebels against the fundamental barrier that nature imposes...death. He seeks to defy mortality, to reanimate dead tissue, to create life from nothingness.
The essential message of Frankenstein is that such pursuits will end in disaster. Man's attempts to become God are doomed to failure and cataclysm. This corresponds to my personal vision of the future. As time marches on, Man becomes tempted to test the limits of his power. It is my view that these temptations are the path to ruin; by attempting to rival God's power, Man is on the road to self-destruction. The future will either be one of moderation or one of disrepair. There is no middle ground. Man will drive himself to oblivion for his insatiable appetite for power.
