Father to Son

A Father speaks to his estranged son.

Director's Commentary:

• Kind of serious this week, but there's a scene in Frankenstein that has always haunted me. It's at the beginning of Chapter 5, when Victor Frankenstein rejects his own creation: "He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs." And that's where the whole tragedy starts--rejected, the monster leaves and begins a path of revenge.
  But what if Frankenstein hadn't rejected his creation? What if he was able to see beyond the surface, to act with empathy instead of fear? This week's [1]nm is a little snapshot from that alternate version.
• Adam is evidently the name Mary Shelly called the creature in early tellings of the story.

For Hap and Chris.

Father to Son