The Shape of Water

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2018)

The Shape of Water: Directed by Guillermo Del Toro and written by Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
This is the love story between a mute cleaning lady and a fish man from the Amazon who looks an awful lot like Abe Sapien from Hellboy. Everything is incredibly stylized in a 1950s movie. The presence of Creature from the Black Lagoon especially its later sequels wash over every blue tinted frame of the movie. This is coming from director Guillermo Del Toro which means the visuals are something else. They are magical and magnificent and unique. It has that blue tinge to it. It feels like the camera lens is viewing things through water itself. It makes sense. Crimson Peak was steeped in shades of red. Most of his movies have this color theme to the visuals.
This is a bizarre movie. The two main characters don't speak so everything is in their body language. It makes getting completely involved in their romance, however unconventional it is, difficult to do. IT takes their relationship to the absolute extreme. It is exactly what you're thinking and this movie was just nominated for a best picture Oscar. A movie about a mute lady having a romance with a fish man sexual and all is nominated for a best picture Oscar. Think about that for a second.
It was never dull. It was beautiful to look at and I understood where they were coming from but I had a hard time getting emotionally involved in any of this. I did enjoy myself watching it. It was a fairly good flick and it was definitely unique for a mainstream movie. I give this movie a B.