The Shape of Water (2017)
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
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Sadly Over-hyped
Great Film overall
Fantastic!
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
The headline is pretty much self explanatory. The fact that this movie has won an Oscar is a sign that the Academy Awards' opinion cannot be based on while evaluating movies. Its pretty much it. I used to respect the Academy Awards' opinion but for the last couple of years, they've pretty much become the People's Choice Awards. How did this movie win an Oscar?
I think it's a super movie as I said in the title. It's got a great story. The acting is even great, but I do not think it's the shape of water among the nine movies that are nominated for the best film this year. Guillermo del Toro has officially created a new world, which again has beautiful backgrounds as in every movie. I liked the Crimson Peak movie before that but I could not show success in the same way.I am very pleased that Guillermo del Toro has succeeded in this film, which is a favorite of almost every film.Now let's just say that I'm not really a super movie but I did not give a lot of information about the creature and I could not understand some places for example, what is this creature, what is the place, how it got in and how it got caught. Why all the people behaved close to the elisa while torturing him and he did not see him as a monster the super powers of creation could do a lot of things, but I could not understand some of the details about it, so I finally remember how Elisa eventually turned into something like that and the scar was on the other side.but the movie really took me to a whole new world. It was so beautiful that it was like I was really living if I was not in a movie. Finally I like the movie very much but I do not think it is good enough to win the best movie award.
Is being dumb & awry a thing of fashion among the Oscars voters? They snub whovever they want every year, not judging the art, but based on actors personal lives. The straight guys in CMBYN played the homosexual roles & scenes so believably true, it was beautiful, realistic, nothing stereotypical, movie was critically acclaimed & a crowd favorite too, but the Oscar voters had to land from a different planet with no knowledge, vote & go back into oblivion! Another disappointing & undeserving winner at the Oscars this year. We as audience need to actually snub the Oscars for once!
Guillermo del Toro is a GOD! Quite simply this is by far the most gorgeous film to come out in years...from the way she spoke about him, to the way he looked at her...amazing.