What an ugly piece of crap!

Rating: 1/10 (16 February 2018)

I cannot really embrace the fact that "The shape of the water" is nominated for 13 Oscars, since it's definitely not academy awards quality, either plot-wise or visually. One little heads up before you watch this movie: don't expect to see anything beautiful, for every thing tremendously lacks appeal in this film, whether the characters or their acting or the settings. I'm not sure if the morals of the film is about reconciling the human/nature dichotomy by showing a very queer scene of an inter-species intercourse, or it's trying to be very liberal by acknowledging the right of the minorities (blacks, homosexuals or even those interested in cross-species coupling); either way it fails to convey its message because the logic of the film is next to meaningless.
An unappealing mute girl, seemingly alone and not very sociable ( since she regularly jerks off in her bathtub every morning), meets a beast which is one of the ugliest characters ever designed for a Sci-Fi movie. Some eggs
are exchanged between the two that leads to a very strong romantic relationship. And they finally choose to stay together. This is only a fraction of the whole mess you're about to watch in this film which is enough to make a movie unbearable for me. The girl, by the way, lives in a cold war era, working in a very top secret facility involved in a very serious business (because we see some people speak Russian with each other) as a janitor, but wait, apparently janitors are given a significant importance in this system, for they're pretty much everywhere and talking to anyone including chiefs and presidents. One final critic, there are posters seen throughout the movie advising against "wasting water", but at the end of the film we see a girl (magically) fills up her bathroom with water through a running faucet, in order to make love with a fish/human hybrid. Isn't it a total waste?