The Shape of Water is about spaces where we belong and people who insert themselves in spaces where they are unwanted. I know it’s your thing, but please stop.) (Dear Guillermo: please stop with the grotesque mouth wounds. But to reduce attention to the shocking scenes, like a grossly wounded hand and a musical number, among others, would diminish del Toro’s smart storytelling. Look, there are many pieces of this film that, on page, come across as surface-level shock value. “So, it’s about these cleaning ladies who work in a top-secret government facility, and the government has captured a fish-man, and one of the cleaning ladies helps to rescue him.” “ The Shape of Water, the new Guillermo del Toro film.”įrom the other room my partner asked, “Did she just ask what the movie is about?” I called my mom in late December and told her, “I have a new favorite movie.
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