A beautiful story

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2018)

"The Shape of Water" is a beautiful movie which is slightly let down by clumsy pacing. It has breathtaking sequences of tenderness, staging and set design, and also moments of shocking violence. It achieves something I never thought I would see in a movie: sexual contact between a woman and a monster which is not just completely repulsive.
The bad guy, I thought, was also a little unnecessary, much like the antagonist in "Pan's Labyrinth", also by del Toro. I didn't think we needed such a cardboard cut-out bad guy, who distracted me from what I thought the movie was really about.