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¿que hace que esta pelicula sea la favorita de tantas personas? Se trata de un cuento que retoma lugar en la vida cotidiana parecido a mitos clásicos como Frankenstein o Pinocho (ser viviente creado por el hombre, que lucha por hacerse un espacio en la sociedad) o como la Bella y la Bestia y cierta influencia de la obra El Fantasma de la Ópera (un amor imposible entre un monstruo, marginado por la sociedad, y una bella joven). El entorno social es descrito de forma crítica y a veces ridiculizando a los personajes, los cuales sienten fascinación y a la vez miedo hacia un ser diferente, que no comparte sus actitudes ni valores. Paralelamente tiene lugar una bonita historia de amor más fuerte que cualquier convención o atadura y sin ningún tipo de condicionante cultural, económico, etc.

Independientemente de la trama, se le pueden dar muchas interpretaciones. Una de éstas es la que dice que Edward es el reflejo de los artistas románticos (del movimiento romántico). Las tijeras en sus manos se interpretarían entonces como las ideas románticas, siendo éstas las que le convierten en motivo de curiosidad pasajera por la belleza de lo que crean, pero también las que le convierten más adelante en motivo de burla y en enemigo de la sociedad por hacerle diferente a lo que ésta cree normal. Director Tim Burton's richly entertaining update of the Frankenstein story is the year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy. The title character, played with touching gravity by Johnny Depp, is the handiwork of an aging inventor — Vincent Price, in a lovely cameo — who lives in a dark, musty mansion overlooking a small town of pastel-colored tract houses (exteriors were shot in Florida). Engaged in fanciful cooking experiments, the lonely inventor turns one of his cookie-cutting machines into a boy, a companion to chat with and instruct in the wonders of art, poetry and etiquette. But just before he can provide Edward with hands instead of shears, the inventor dies, leaving

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