THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017) - Beauty at its most intimate
The Shape of Water is a 2017 science-fiction romantic drama film directed and written by Guillermo del Toro, starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Richard Jenkins. The movie follows Elisa Esposito, a mute janitor working at a secret government facility set in Cold War-era Baltimore, where she meets, befriends, and ultimately falls in love with a humanoid amphibian creature that had been recently captured by the U.S. government. "When he looks at me, he does not know what I lack, or how I am incomplete. He sees me for what I am, as I am." So begins one of the strangest, and yet most endearing, love stories in modern cinema. But what elevates this film from simple love story to timeless classic isn't its weird "fish sex" romance, but the themes that resonate through every character present. The Shape of Water is a story about incomplete people--people who feel unfulfilled with their lives because the