It’s alive! And it’s at Venice Film Festival ! But it’s not a metaphor for artificial intelligence.

Guillermo del Toro ‘s “ Frankenstein ,” starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac as the monster and his creator, film follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment, only for the experiment to lead to the destruction of them both. It’s a timely tale about hubris, the corruption of power and the dangers of technology, but it’s not a warning for the proliferation of AI.

“It’s not intended as a metaphor for that,” del Toro said at the film’s official press conference on Saturday afternoon. “We live in a time of terror and intimidation, certainly. And the seminal question in the novel is, what is it to be human? What makes us human? Th

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