The Shape of Water Comments

  • Cheyenne 2022-03-21 09:01:14

    Only directors with a childlike heart can shoot such romantic fairy tales, and those who can understand are those who have never lost their innocence. This world is crazy enough, so crazy that even the absurd mermaid love looks so beautiful. They meet because of incompleteness, and they will no longer feel lonely for the rest of their lives; and this world will not get better, discrimination will not disappear, and bad people will not wake up. They think that mermaids are ugly because they have...

  • Ivy 2022-03-21 09:01:14

    The plot is still okay, but I have to complain about the appearance of this mermaid, it reminds me of the old version of Journey to the...

  • Eunice 2022-03-21 09:01:14

    Although knowing that the director wants to tell a fairy tale about marginalized people, he still feels awkward. From an ideological level, in various fairy tales, myths and legends, men falling in love with goblins and monsters mostly means depravity or at least loss. All viewers shouted disgusting. Women fall in love with monsters , Orcs , and even animals , but they represent the love of pure goodness and sublimation. This film...

  • Adolphus 2022-03-21 09:01:14

    3.5 Water is impermanent, so the liquid romance in the spatial structure centered on "water" is also impermanent. Because of the flow, the flow and romance become understandable without being restricted by heavy equipment (sufficient reasons and foreshadowing). The performance is too moving, and the detailed expressions will be thinly filled, just like invisible water, transforming the form to surround people. Like the spectrum, the viewing experience also changes in the...

  • Lottie 2022-03-21 09:01:14

    But if you look at this story as a dark fairy tale, it does not have the elements that are often found in fairy tales. It is only beautiful and romantic enough, with the usual monster complex and fascinating feelings of the director of Gyro. The director's hobbies give this story more interest. The director's style ensures that the film is unique in image and aesthetics. The director's skilled narrative skills ensure that the rhythm of this Hollywood genre is extremely...

  • Amara 2022-03-21 09:01:14

    The most "moving" part is that such an old fairy tale with no new meaning has successfully transformed from a Hollywood studio production line product into the first choice of Water City Golden Lion and Austrian Department of seed players. Although I tried very hard to blend into it, I couldn't generate empathy, and the motivation of the characters (especially supporting roles) was really blunt. I am curious if this background is set in the present, whether it can be praised like...

  • Amiya 2022-03-20 09:01:12

    Love is like the shape of water, which can hold all kinds of things. A very beautiful movie, like Pan's Labyrinth, is an adult fairy tale, but more gentle and romantic. It is also a story of people who are usually despised by the mainstream and regarded as marginal, joining hands to fight against oppression. Sally Hawkins played very well, very delicate, and the eyes in love are very attractive. Especially when she tried to persuade her friends with sign language, it was so touching. No wonder...

  • Libby 2022-03-20 09:01:12

    whaaaaat theeeee fuuuuck? ? ? ! The 90s retro sci-fi thriller style is great and it makes the plot more sense, but I don’t accept the heroine’s setting of "the sex mania who exchanges eggs for dicks". I am still lonely and marginal. Your curtains and nail clippers are also lonely. Give me less. This is abusive label. In addition, the standard roles of blacks and homosexuals can't be over-interpreted,...

  • Lucinda 2022-03-20 09:01:12

    "The Shape of Water" is good, but not good enough. The good thing is that it is willing to use underachievers, willing to play seriously, and shoot a short story with big hands. Only filmmakers in the nineties dare to do this. What's not good enough is that it thinks too clearly and is too calculating. Every line and every plot is carefully designed. The identity of the marginal person, the background of the Cold War, the comparison of beauty and ugliness, the relationship between humans and...

  • Marcella 2022-03-20 09:01:12

    Every minute is miserably painful to watch... Stupid Golden Lion Award, wasting me two...

Extended Reading
  • Giles 2022-04-23 07:01:15

    just some small things

    To be honest, I went to the cinema to watch this twice. I also watched it on my phone. Except for the scars of the heroine at the end that turned into cheeks, other plots have clear ideas in the beginning of the story. But it's still a movie that moved me enough. Dumb women and imprisoned...

  • Sarai 2022-04-20 09:01:11

    It's not love, it's just hugging for warmth

    Love is not to see the other's flaws and unbearable, but to fall in love with the other's flaws and unbearable.

    Very avant-garde "queer" movie, I refused to accept cross-species love when I watched it and within half an hour of watching it.

    I suddenly realized that I enjoyed watching Disney's "Beauty...

The Shape of Water quotes

  • Giles: [interpreting Elisa] I can either save him, or let him die.

  • Zelda: [to Elisa] Oh! Woman, we gon' burn in hell!