The limits of wholeness

Rating: 9/10 (13 January 2019)

I prefer to go deeper than the mere political meaning (which could be ascribed to The Shape of Water, but is not necessarily inherent to it) and not see the amphibian man as a symbol of minorities.
Rather, I see it as this part of our own selves where our secret power dwells. It is with us from our birth, but we leave it become rudimentary and even see it as a flaw. We try to dissect it, harness it, make it serve purposes we imagine are good. What is it then? God, magic, an alien gene? Simply our wholeness, nothing else. Without which we will remain creatures who suffocate/drown in our natural environment.
It's all there! And it's so beautifully told!