Beyond belief

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2018)

When I first saw this film, I thought it was going to be ordinary. I've seen "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" and other "gill man" movies, this one is a lot less horror. It takes place in the 60's dealing with every aspect of that time: segregation, time for change, and also top secret government information. Here you have two workers Elisa(Sally Hawkins) who is mute, and her coworker, Zelda(Octavia Spencer) who is African American and is her friend and interpreter. They both clean up at a government facility, which they are hiding something, "Top Secret". But other than that, there's a scientist who has happen to be a spy from Russia. Elisa secretly has spent time in the area where the creature is being held. She gives him a boiled egg, and teaches him sign language. The spy would rather help the creature than having it destroyed by his own countrymen goes beyond his way to save it. But he's not the only one. There's an ad illustrator(Richard Jenkins) who is friends with Elisa who would know about the creature as well. When Zelda and Elisa bring the creature from the facility, Elisa keeps him in the bathroom in the tub, and have plenty of salt ,because he is a marine creature. GIles(Jenkins) who owns lots of cats met him for the first time wasn't a pleasant one at first. He eats one of the cats, scratched his arm and ran off. But when he comes back to apologize in his own way, he pats his head and touches the arm he scratched. After seeing what happened, everyone comes to terms the creature is like a god.
After seeing the plot and results, I think that the movie is like a match made in heaven. The intimacy between the two beings is unbelievable. And that crazed Colonel is a very disturbing character. I don't care about the negative reviews from the other critics. Besides being 2 hours, it's worth every minute!
5 stars!