zombeesknees:#the trick is not falling into the trap of thinking del Toro’s love of monsters means ‘
zombeesknees:#the trick is not falling into the trap of thinking del Toro’s love of monsters means ‘super nice good folks who look monstrous’ #listening to the director’s commentary on CP and the monsters in this aren’t only the nice ghosts #thomas and lucille straight up murder people #and he still loves them as embodying the concept of the monstrous #and it’s not about a syrupy victorian super-happy redemption when edith realises she really does love thomas #even after she KNOWS he facilitated her attempted murder #and the actual murder of several others #it’s not about forgiveness or changing or absolving - it’s just love #like when he says in interviews love is not about changing someone it’s about accepting someone #which - hi most gothic fiction - can make love horrific and melancholy as well as beautiful #(as opposed to solely being healing and healthy) #sometimes love is monstrous #lucille’s love and thomas’ love AND edith’s love #del Toro’s love of monsters isn’t just hellboy and that nice fishman #he loves the kaiju that killed mako’s parents and he loves the sharpes #and whatsmore he loves that edith loves thomas when it’s (in his words) ‘too late’ #the point of this is i worry about the current love-fest from the united states re: guillermo del toro turning sour the way it usually does #like ‘we liked u when by monster u meant the ugly duckling’ #‘but now that u actually mean monsters like ‘horrifying behaviour’ we need to throw u on the trashpile’ #i mean like and dislike whatever you want but GdT’s thing is right there on the label and he’s not shy about it #idk i can see him being accused of being a Rochester Apologist after his next gothic romance and like can we pre-emptively Not -- source link
#crimson peak