The Bride!

I was prepared to hate this film in light of all the mixed reviews it has received, but leave it to me to love a singular vision that makes no apology for its excesses. And they really aren’t excesses, to speak of, more sly nods to predecessors. The narrative conceit is having the deceased Mary Shelley, author of Frankie’s tale, start off the program with a telling preamble and her occasional reappearance as a voice in The Bride’s! head, or perhaps her possession of her, urging her to act on her rage in this or that situation. And rage it is! She has a great deal, we learn. She’s also incredibly verbal! I blame Ms. Shelley for that. Her dialogue is great. Pay attention! There may be a slight disconnect in The Bride!’s backstory, but it’s easy to deduce the source of her wrath. And Frankie is a charmer, slow to anger, dapper, and gentlemanly, but lethal. Anyway, it’s funny, violent, musical, and hopeful in ways you wouldn’t expect. Buckley & Bale are marvelous together, Cruz & Sarsgaard are plucky as gumshoes, Jake Gyllenhaal is perfect as a matinee idol, but Jeanie Berlin as Dr. Euphornious’s (the studious Annette Bening) housemaid is adroit in her attendant freakishness: I was particularly impressed by her ability to portray an emaciated version of Anjelica Huston! I enjoyed it. And leave it to Maggie Gyllenhaal to bring Fever Ray (yay!) to the silver screen and end with a teasing possibility of …“I would prefer not to…”

I'm not the biggest fan of period movies, but I had to make an exception when Jessie Buckley is in the lead here. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride! comes out just 3 months after another Frankenstein adaptation. But the Bride is not about the science but more about how women are ostracised from society. Frankenstein's monster, who now has lived for over 100 years, travels to Chicago to meet with Dr. Euphronious, whose help he needs to help to bring a woman back to life for **** Bride has a lot working in its favour. The credit for that goes primarily to Jessie Buckley. She turns in yet another memorable performance that is loud, reactive to the plight of women and polar opposite to the calmness that she brought to her role in Hamnet. Christian Bale plays an older version of the monster and I can picture Jacob Elordi's version turning into this version. He is the image of a person who is lonely and would go to any extent to get a companion. Jake Gyllenhaal doesn't have much to do as someone who serves as Frank's inspiration. Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening costar.Maggie Gyllenhaal makes some notable changes to the narrative, the major one being the possession of The Bride by Mary Shelly's character. This brings out a different side to the character, one that is empowered and wants a safer place for women in the world. The Bonny & Clyde style of storytelling makes for a refreshing change. The Bride! isn't for everyone. It works primarily because of Buckley's performance and Gyllenhaal's vision for the character.

A Blind Screening will Shock you Alive. I believe that it was a nice thing - a movie (directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal), who wanted to make a story about the Bride of Frankenstein & she was inspired by old movies like "The Bride of Frankenstein" & "Top Hat" which did get referenced in the movie itself, which is nice. Also, the Bride (Ida) brands herself after Ginger Rogers. There are many nice parts to it: I found interesting that Ida is actually the author, Mary Shelley, telling the story from the dead in greyscale. The prosthetics also give something different: Frank has normal skin & his head does not seem to high. This is divisive: positively, it could have a more real feel; negatively, it could make him look dull & off-putting. Ida did not need stitches; she was already & sparked back to life. BTW, I believe Ida could have gotten more time to shine. Why am I being positive about a polarising movie? It is labelled as OK BTW

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The real monster was the movie all along. Everything negative that's you've probably heard about this film is true and then some. It's not a good movie. The problems range from the script, the directing and the acting. And yes there's also a feminist push that's over the top and has the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Just the concept of Mary Shelley possessing people as a ghost, is not only ridiculous and a bit of an insult to a writer who legitimately helped legitimise female writers.