A Beautiful Masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2018)

Honestly, this film is Del Toro's best piece. While the plot sounds completely absurd, Del Toro executes it perfectly to make a weird and quite frankly strange piece turn into an amazing romantic story.
With the beautiful cinematography and magical 50's theme, The Shape of Water combines a variety of themes from love and acceptance to bravery and self worth. The soundtrack in this movie is phenomenal, and Del Toro's choice in old songs fit the movie so well in unexpected ways.
The only thing that threw me off was the black and white dancing and singing between the amphibian man and Elisa. I still do not know what I feel about it. On one hand, it felt very out of place and different from the tone of the rest of the film, yet at the same time, the short scene added a sense of fantasy and romance into the film that made it so jarring but interesting to watch.
Overall, I loved the movie and would highly recommend it.