the first time my best friend and i sit down to watch this movie and we be watch it for alex winter of bill and ted fame . we do not know what to expect other than who and what it be about . by the time the movie be over and we know that it be love at first sight . this movie and while not completely historically accurate and be and be the best one of it genre . i have see other movie depict the history of this famous summer and in my opinion and none of the others can compare . it fib a little at certain detail and but those part do not take away from the sheer elegance and romance of the story . i have see the other movie about this summer and i find most of them to be good and but none as captivating a this one . haunt summer have the quality of a painting . the color and setting seem to be something one would find on a canvas and frame and hang in a museum or on the wall of an eccentric home . the costume be gorgeous and and despite not be the most comfortable clothes in the world and make me want to find a seamstress to create such garb for myself . the whole movie be set on the picturesque lake geneva ( where i hope to one day go because of see this movie ) and the serenity that these historical figure find there . this movie show and besides the tranquility find by all the escapee of england harsh judgement and the strangeness that surround this adventure as well . yes and there be drug . it be a fairly common practice during that time and a time when drug be not illegal . and the taking of laudanum ( the liquid form of opium ) be medicinal as well a recreational . shelley suffer from consumption . lord byron suffer the pain of a clubbed foot . it be not surprising that there would be prescription of the strong drug that be in their possession during that summer . and they be poet during a time when experience be the key . there be no time for prudish caution . passion and experience be a big part of the romantic era . and out of the thought and discussion of science and religion and philosophy come the creation of a legend represent frankenstein . yes and in this movie and we see the beautiful and liberate mary godwin ( not marry to shelley at that time ) play by beautiful and talented alice krige . she be the control factor to all that go on until she and too and give in to experience . but she stand her ground and experience thing on her own term . a be the strength that she inherit from her mother and father . the actor and actress in this be perfect for the part they play . the music fitting . the direction capture the essence of the summer and a i have read about it . this movie be base on a wonderful book haunt summer by anne edward . if you like this movie and read the book . the author take the story from what she be able to put together from the actual journal of mary godwin shelley and the other participant of this story . if you be a person who love history ( even the little inaccuracy from time to time ) and romance and the gothic and then this be a movie for you . it show the birth of the birth of the monster and which even today teach u about the moral of play god . a definite must see movie .