The Shape of Failure

Rating: 3/10 (3 February 2018)

And that's how I would name this film, because to me it's the truth.
I appreciate some Guillermo del Toro films, like The Orphanage and especially Pan's Labyrinth (Labyrinth of the Faun). So, a movie which seemed to me like the same proposal, it would be worth my money.
I was wrong.
The film does have a great acting from the actress, Sally Hawkins, including others, such as Michael Shannon, who even made me think that he could be the new Joker for a new Batman movie, but that's all. Nothing more positive, the rest of it to me sounds like a disaster.
The plot is very weak, although we should see some good intention behind, the writing, the script, the conversations are weak, often without "foot nor head", an expression that I usually use to say something that is not fullbodied, complete or has sense of logic; the narrative is an attempt of a convincing story that failed miserably, photography is just another try to improve the movie, and the soundtrack is a mess.
I have no doubt if all this was intended to cause a plot twist in the head of the viewer, it would be great, but I dont think so, even more by the way how the film deals with a "inter-species relationship."
I particularly do not have many prejudices and Im always open-minded when it comes to the Art as is the cinema, but I still feel it fails miserably, because it presents prejudices and cliches that the own critics and the own (post-moderns) people would do bad-mouthing and wishing the worse if it were me to make a film like this, they would still call me of sick, for example. Outrageous
Anyway, each one with their problems and this film for me is very problematic, so I make this review.
Thank you.