Pioneering and captivating

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2018)

Shape of water is the story of Elisa, a young mute woman, who works as a cleaning woman in some kind of laboratory. Elisa does not seem to be interested into the laboratory's activities until one certain day when she notices a strange creature in one of the room. She starts communicating with this watery creature and they end up having friendship bond. Notably because Elisa starting to feed the creature with boiled eggs. One day, when she notices that the creature is often beat and mistreated by the laboratory director, she decides to secretly make the creature escapes to her own apartment. From this point, she gets physically closer to the creature, who lives in her bathtub, and plans on releasing him in a canal near her place. However, the director of the laboratory is still looking for the creature and is ready to do everything to find it. Beyond the obvious suspense raised by the plot of this movie, we can easily appreciate the unusual environment and predicament of the action which hook the viewer due to their originality. Furthermore, Elisa and the creature being unable to speak and to communicate with words, a real stress on visual storytelling is done in this movie and is visible all along the action. In a nutshell, the very original plot and the construction of Shape of water lead us, as viewers, to be hooked by the action and that is why I would recommend you watch it!