Frankenstein (2025) I can't believe so many people take Elizabeth's love for creature as romantic
How can most of the "movie critics" miss the point so much?
Elizabeth's love for the creature is motherly. Or at least was placed there to represent it.
From the moment of the very first meeting - touching fingers, lifting his arms to look at him, it is so similar of a woman bonding with her newborn baby. And she even asks "who hurt you?".
Her thanking him for the leaf - very much like thanking a toddler...
Elizabeth's quote before she died: "My place was never in this world. I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it. To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love. And in its brevity, its tragedy... this has been made eternal. Better this way... to fade... with your eyes gazing upon me."
Suggests nothing about romantic love but finding meaning and purpose.
Victor being jealous of the creature because it receives Elizabet's love - emotionally immature, abusive men hating on their own children because they're no longer the main focus of the woman.
Victor literally becoming his father, something that set his whole life. His father despising him and his mother. But he also grew to despise his "creation".
Victor's mother dies giving birth to his brother. Elizabeth dies thinking she's saving the monster. One event sets Victor on the path of creating the monster, another one - destroying it. Victor's brother is also an indirect victim of the events. Just like Victor was in his childhood. A generational cycle of pain and suffering.