something i don't see folks mention (which is understandable given how MUCH is in this film) is this line from victor... i think considering the time period, it made me assume that the frankenstein family in this adaptation probably owned or at least had financial stakes in american slave plantations and i think that adds a whole other messy layer to victor as a person
he only mentions it in passing because he was still a child at that time and wasn't aware that his family fortune came from human exploitation and evil, but also it ties into his laboratory and making of the creature being entirely funded by an immoral war profiteer. he and heinrich exploit other humans by either callously judging men about to die at the gallows or clinically picking apart what's left on a battlefield, surrounded by bodies who met their end from heinrich's own weapons
the entire frankenstein name is built upon cruelty, privilege, and grandiose ideas of self importance and it's only when the creature—someone who has nothing, thinks of himself as being nothing, and was created from this cruelty—does the cycle stop and what the frankenstein name meant and represented can finally fade away