Back to water

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2018)

Guillermo del Toro is a great director and a good story-teller. Another story, of magic realism, was presented to viewer's eyes, in a captivating and mysterious cinematographic image. I enjoyed watching this movie and few clues remembered me of something: the speechless etherical woman, her attraction to water, how she was found on the riverbank when she was a baby, the signs on her neck and not the least her love story with that half human, half fish creature. Few minutes after the end of the movie I knew: she resembles the little mermaid who sacrificed her voice, long hair, her immortal life etc. for coming in the human world just for a prince's sake, losing almost everything. This time another little mermaid chose to live in the human world, in a humble and mostly inward way. She was turned back to life and taken away to the sea by a man of her kind. Back to the sea, the justice was done and finally the little mermaid found her peace and true love.