Bangladesh, March 11 -- We live in a world littered with things we have made and no longer know how to live with. Our technologies scale beyond our capacity to govern them; our systems generate consequences no one claims; our knowledge outruns our moral imagination. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) has become the foundational myth of this condition. It is not primarily a warning about scientific hubris. It is the drama of responsibility after creation—the question of whether we can remain with what we have brought into being.

Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein (2025) returns to Shelleys myth at a moment when its meaning has become difficult to ignore. The film does not treat the story as a moral fable about reckless invention but as...