The love story we needed.

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2017)

Such a beautifully, weird love story. Also a story of the life of the outsiders of society during the 1960s. The monster in this movie is the "normal" everyday man. The main character Elisa never speaks, as she is mute, but she makes one feel with the emotion she portrays with her eyes and body language. In a world and time where someone like her would be seen as less than, she lives a comfortable life in a world of her own making. She seems to lack a certain something, a sense of fulfillment, maybe.
All of this changes when "the asset" is brought into the government lab, where she works alongside her African American friend Zelda, as a janitor. Seen by everyone else as a thing, Elisa treats the Amphibian Man with kindness and develops a friendship with him.
Other than this love story, the Shape of Water portrays a 1960s world where kindness is found in the other, outsiders, and malice is found in the "normals". It is a beautiful movie to look at, with a plot that flows.