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However, one superlative does apply to director Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s&nbsp; sophomore project: it sure is the strangest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gyllenhaal sets her story a century after the events of Shelley\u2019s original novel, loosely adapting 1935\u2019s <em>Bride of Frankenstein<\/em>. The film continues a subplot involving Frankenstein\u2019s Monster&nbsp; begging his creator to reanimate a woman like him to be his lover. The creature (Christian&nbsp; Bale)\u2014dubbed Frank in this film\u2014seeks the help of renowned scientist Dr. Cornelia&nbsp; Euphronius (Annette Bening) to carry out this task. The pair select and revive recently&nbsp; deceased Ida Bolinski (Jessie Buckley), who loses her memory upon resurrection. Thus, she believes Frank\u2019s lie that she is his bride.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An admittedly intriguing setup devolves into a directionless, demented version of Bonnie and&nbsp; Clyde. The couple enter a deeply repetitive cycle of going somewhere, killing people, and&nbsp; escaping the law. How hilariously awful they are, both to each other and their surroundings,&nbsp; does create comedy. Nevertheless, some laughs here and there are not enough to carry what&nbsp; is ultimately a shallow, simple storyline. Even when Frank\u2019s lie is eventually exposed, it has&nbsp; underwhelmingly little impact. Gyllenhaal\u2019s screenplay reduces what could have been an&nbsp; exciting shift in the relationship dynamics to insubstantial melodrama.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the film never establishes neither Bride nor Groom as characters nearly enough&nbsp; beyond general derangement and debauchery. While both Buckley and Bale deliver admirably&nbsp; unhinged performances, they come across as obnoxious often. Although, this is likely less&nbsp; their own fault than that of the writing and directing. Indeed, the film seems more interested in&nbsp; provocative, absurdist spectacle than telling its own tale. That is disappointing, both due to&nbsp; how much potential the concept had and how fantastic Gyllenhaal\u2019s character-work was with&nbsp; her previous film, <em>The Lost Daughter<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike that film, <em>The Bride! <\/em>is so jam-packed with constant content that none of it is fleshed&nbsp; out enough. As another example, the pair\u2019s pursuers, Detective Jake Wiles (Peter Saarsgard)&nbsp; and Myrna Malloy (Pen\u00e9lope Cruz), take up significant screentime. However, they remain\u2014 ironically\u2014so criminally underdeveloped that you must wonder what the point of their inclusion&nbsp; was at all. Storylines like these that add so little could have quite easily been left on the cutting&nbsp; room floor. These cuts would have allowed time to add more meat to the bones of the core&nbsp; characters and storyline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most questionable is the inclusion of Mary Shelley herself. The film opens on Shelley (also&nbsp; played by Buckley) in the afterlife, who soon takes possession of Ida to tell the story.&nbsp; Gyllenhaal attempts to add a meta level to the film, and, while conceptually interesting, it is&nbsp; ultimately confusing. It is completely unclear how any of it actually works and what the film is&nbsp; trying to say. The possession angle comes up infrequently enough\u2014beyond Buckley spouting&nbsp; synonyms and rhymes for no apparent reason and occasionally hearing voices from Shelley\u2014 that it has little impact on the film at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, the message becomes muddled in the mess. <em>The Bride! <\/em>sets out to be a&nbsp; feminist retelling of one of the most iconic works of literature ever made, and while the goal is&nbsp; admirable, the result is as black-and-white thematically as its predecessor, <em>Bride of&nbsp; Frankenstein<\/em>, is visually. The central relationship says very little about gender roles in the&nbsp; 1930s, and what we get is far from invigorating. Furthermore, despite its aspirations of&nbsp; subversiveness, the film feels strangely subdued. Albeit frustrating in its current state,&nbsp; choosing to home in on Shelley\u2019s involvement would have been far more unique. Perhaps, the&nbsp; <em>Frankenstein <\/em>adaptation could have been truly great had it focused distinctly on Shelley\u2019s&nbsp; relationship with art and womanhood.&nbsp;Alas, it was not to be, and Maggie Gyllenhaal is no modern Prometheus. <em>The Bride! <\/em>adapts a&nbsp; story of a man being cobbled together with mismatched bits and pieces where the final product&nbsp; ends up disfigured, disillusioned, and all-around a bit of a mess; sadly, that\u2019s what the film&nbsp; feels like too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Words by Isaak Hewitt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@deansam08\">Shivam Gosain<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-silhouette-of-a-woman-wearing-a-veil-0cNNA7acveM\">Unsplash<\/a>. No changes have been made to this image. 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