A green vitamin

Rigoberto 2021-10-18 09:31:36

"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 gods. Relationship, the whole story is based on "Notre Dame de Paris", all things that can be written in film reviews are all exposed.
There are no extra lines and plots, no extra emotions, no useless metaphors, no passages that the director himself doesn’t know why they filmed, and I think that in a good movie, there must be some directors who don’t know why they did it. paragraph.
It is not a vegetable, but a handful of vitamins, albeit a handful of green vitamins.

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The Shape of Water quotes

  • Giles: Oh! God, to be young and beautiful. If I could go back

    [Elisa nods]

    Giles: to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.

    Elisa: [in sign language] What would you say?

    Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck a lot more.

    [Elisa smiles and gently nudges him]

    Giles: Oh no, no, that's very good advice.

  • [last lines]

    Giles: If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love? That they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her - of Elisa - the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: "Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere."