it’s official. Taffy is my new blorbo
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A sister is a best friend for life!!
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Lisa Frankenstein kicks ass for a plethora of reasons but honestly Lisa and Taffy's sisterhood was such an unexpectedly sweet thing. Like you meet Taffy and immediately you're like OK, she's shallow and spoiled, seems like the wicked stepsister type especially once we meet the stepmom. But the further in you get the more you realize that Taffy is actually very earnest and does love Lisa, even though she doesn't quite understand how to connect with her. She's a self centered spoiled kid, and she hurts her, but she still loves her sister. And Lisa loves her too! Taffy is the only living person in Lisa's life that looks out for her and spends time with her. And even though she kind of sucks at it, it's still really meaningful.
It was a nice dynamic to add to the movie. It definitely would have been easier to just make Taffy a one note irredeemable mean girl and move on, but giving her some complexity made it so much more enjoyable!
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thinking about how the heart-shaped gravestone with flowers on it was 100% chosen by taffy. and then the creature added “beloved wife” and took care of it despite her not being truly dead. lisa’s grave is just a monument of love.
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this is really inspired by a post someone else made but I can’t find it rn 😭😭 but hear me out okay
yes lisa frankenstein is a campy silly funny slasher romcom, and I ADORE it for that. but I’ve been thinking abt how it comments on the way society treats people with trauma, especially women, especially in past decades. the three major women each demonstrate different effects of that.
Lisa is the most obvious — we know what happened to her mom, and we see how everyone feels about her. hell, she tells us. nobody cares about her healing, they just want her to move on. (this also ties into themes of the original Frankenstein story; he wasn’t a monster, but everyone treated him like he was, so he became one.) instead of helping her, everyone others Lisa because she does not hide her pain, nor the effects that pain has had on her. so she becomes the dangerous freak everyone made her out to be.
then we have Janet — Janet, whose father died in the Vietnam war, who appears to have ignored her trauma exactly the way society wanted her to. she buried her pain in order to fit into traditional feminine roles: she’s a mother, she keeps up her home, she’s thin and made-up and absolutely drenched in feminine colors and silhouettes. but the unchecked trauma ate her up inside, and it made her into an antagonist. she became the very sort of person that contributed to her own suffering. she’s perpetuating a vile cycle.
and finally, there’s Taffy, who naturally checks every box on the ‘traditional femininity’ checklist. social and bright and pretty. a cheerleader, a party girl, toeing the line between fitting in and being memorable. she’s never experienced the kinds of struggle that Janet or Lisa did — until the end of the movie. that shot of the man in the car looking at her, beaten and bloody and scared out of her mind. and he drives away without a word. the minute she has a big, ugly problem? she’s dismissed. she’s othered, the same way that Lisa was.
but in Taffy’s final scene, she’s visiting Lisa’s grave. she wears the rosary, a symbol of her otherness. her dress is a feminine cut, and it’s black w pink flowers. she has just been a victim of events scarily similar to Lisa: her mother was killed by a frankenstein, she witnessed death, she was subsequently dismissed for her trauma. but I have to hope that this symbolizes the difference between Taffy and Lisa/Janet; that she’ll break the cycle; that she’ll be able to address her suffering while reclaiming her femininity.
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here’s what the lisa frankenstein blu ray looks like!
we’re getting deleted scenes and a gag reel…. and more… 😻 available for pre order now, released on april 9th!
source: amazon
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