Artsy Fartsy joke

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2018)

I've read all the bad reviews (there are many) and I agree with all of them. Every point made is valid. This is clearly a movie we are suppose to like in the same way that we are suppose to like any given painting because it seems like we should.,,, even when we don't.
Instead of reviewing this manipulative work, I'll just ask some of the questions I had during and after seeing it:
Why do we need to see Elisa masturbating in the tub, not once but twice?
Why is there a guy at the bus stop holding a bunch of balloons and a partially eaten cake?
Why does Strickland's wife smell the fingers on his good hand then why do we have to watch him have sex with her while he covers her mouth with his bleeding hand?
Why do Elisa's two closes friends think it's wonderful that she had sex with some sort of a fish creature?
Why are cleaning people allowed to roam freely into areas that are for some reason left unsecured at all times?
Who is Strickland? He is not a scientist. He doesn't seem to be in charge of security. The only think we know for sure is that he is the person who teases and assaults the creature.
Strickland had his fingers sewn back on. Didn't he make any follow up appointments with his doctor to check the progress? Didn't he think to go back to the hospital when his fingers started to turn black and smell bad? Why did he instead choose to pull them off only after they smelled so bad that he could not handle it?
.. and why did the director think we would forgive all of this (and more) simply because he said it's a fairy tale??? Yeah, and I guess all bad film should get a free pass if the say "it's a fairy tale"...
Just another case of the special effects being better than the story being told... Take away the cinematography, the creature fx, and the super high budget and you're left with a story that would be laughed at by most. Even the people who are now raving about how wonderful it is..