Under expectations

Rating: 1/10 (16 April 2018)

Shape of water sounds like a fancy movie, the one that you necessarly need to see and you hear people all over talking about it...
But, then, you go to the cinema and watch it... I must say, I was extremely unpatient about watching this ,,Oscar'' movie and only hearing its name would make me giddy. However, the impression with which I left after the movie, was ridiculousness.
In the first place, you can fill the whole ocean with how many clichés there were included in this film... One girl that sees some shoes which she cannot afford in the showcase and a couple of tv's in its back.
Then, the villain, Strickland, it's the most classy negative character that you can ever imagine. He is the bad guy, who doesn't really understand others, but does ,,the best" for his job. He tortures the creature like he has a brain made out of cheese and when he open his mouths you hear a 2 year-old speaking. He also impersonated the though guy, who forces his fingers off his hand when he gets mad.
As well as the other characters, she (Eliza Esposito) is the hero of the action, the one who stands out of the crowd, and puts her job at risk for a monster, who, by the way, didn't even know. She falls in love with him after giving him an egg because ,,they understand each other''. Nonsense!
Mr. Arzoumanian, Eliza's bestfriend is a sort of Geppeto, from Pinnochio. He likes lemon pie and, another common thing, is that he has a fridge full of those pies! He tries to be sympathetic but his jokes, from my opinion, are not that funny.
Moreover, there were some scenes that were inappropriate and they weren't supposed to be there. For example, even if the writer or the director wanted to express something, I found the scene when Eliza and the monster lock in the bathroom without ANY sense. I mean, Eliza didn't even know him...
In contrast with the points listed above, the movie also had nice images and music, which induced you somehow in a magicshly atmosphere and created a bit of a cliff-hanger. Anyway, the good parts don't compensate the negative ones...