The comment was too long, so I had to post it as a movie review - "The Shape of Water"

Easton 2022-04-19 09:01:18

Interspecies love? In the end, the heroine is not human... I have absolutely no idea what this movie is about, and the motives of the characters are very casual. The biggest flaw is the mediocrity of the plot. The director does not have the ability to turn corruption into magic. After mediocrely telling a mediocre story, the only good thing is the ending, but it is also the most popcorn. Everything is untenable. The heroine is a fool who is late every day and cuts in line. The ugly stroke of the male protagonist has no cross-species beauty. These two people who only know how to hurt others but don't know how to be grateful have had unfounded love, which is not touching at all!

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  • Amparo 2021-10-20 19:00:19

    It was an accident that the old-fashioned magical love story of humans and beasts won last year's Venice Golden Lion Award. Director Spiny (Mexican director nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "Pan's Labyrinth") genre film skill and wonderful performance and visual production are certainly worthy of praise, but even if it adds to the political background of the Cold War era , Can not conceal the mediocrity and flimsy of its connotation.

  • Sigurd 2022-03-22 09:01:13

    Obviously it is another [Lust, Caution]. It is so dreamy and wonderful to shoot an adult fairy tale that is not new, and it is very creative. PS, nostalgic movies, black-and-white singing and dancing, religious colors, the Soviet-Russian Cold War complex, the nudity of middle-aged women, the supernatural power to cure hair loss... These elements seem to be directed at the 60-something white people (Oscar judges), you are amazing !

The Shape of Water quotes

  • Giles: Y'know, uh - cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation. It didn't work.

  • Hoyt: A man has the decency not to fuck up. Now that's one thing. That's real decent of him. But the other kind of decency - it doesn't really matter. We sell it, but it's an export. We sell it because we don't use it.