Once upon a time, a creature born from the pen of Mary Shelley found new life on the cinema screen. However, this time, we enter a world where love illuminates, far removed from Shelley's dark realm. Between Frankenstein and Poor Things, we can witness the contrast of Eros and Thanatos.

Eros represents a broad instinct for life, energy, and desire. Libido is considered a manifestation of this life energy and desire. However, libido is not solely associated with sexual gratification but also plays a role in aesthetic, intellectual, or spiritual pursuits and experiences unrelated to sexual satisfaction.

Thanatos, on the other hand, stands in direct opposition to Eros representing construction, creativity, and love. The death instinct is the source of destructiveness, aggression, and hatred. Compulsion to repeat, acts of violence, envy manifest as expressions of this instinct.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the creature, unnamed, is a figure who escapes the control of its creator and brings destruction. Though designed as a being who fundamentally seeks to be human, rejection and loneliness in the external world fill him with hatred, anger, and pain, ultimately turning him into a monster.

In the film "Poor Things," however, Godwin Baxter's creature has a name and figures who embrace it. Bella Baxter is a woman reborn with the brain of a child, initially drawn to bodily pleasures but gradually developing desires for art, music, dance, and reading as she evolves psychologically. Instead of destructiveness and hatred, she turns to creation, repair, and love.

Bella's journey, which initially seeks physical pleasures, evolves into a quest for more refined emotions, deep connections, and meaningful experiences. Frankenstein's unnamed creature, on the other hand, becomes increasingly isolated and destructive. Before destroying himself, he expresses his anguish as follows:

"... the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. But even that enemy of God and of man, in his desolate state, had friends and companions: I am alone."

Bella, however, has friends and associates. She connects to life with love and sustains her vitality with a desire for creation and repair.