Just wasted two hours of my life on a pile of crap – otherwise known as the award-winning best-movie-of-the-year 'The shape of water'.
I should've known, I mean the bloody movie won an Oscar just one week ago. I fancy myself smart enough not to listen to the Hollywood elite anymore, yet somehow I trusted their judgment and watched a movie they said was brilliant.
I love fantasy, I love sci-fi, violence and gore do not disturb me, but this production is just awful. The reason it won the Oscar is that its subject is diversity, social inclusion, accepting (and loving) a being that is different. That's obvious from the way the good guys in the movie team up – the fantastical creature, the mute girl, the black woman, the gay and the Russian. Don't worry, it's a good Russian and the bad Russians want to kill him.
Shocking, there were no Asian characters in the movie.
You might be wondering about transgenders – well, the strange creature has no visible genitals.... although it identified as male and the girl was quite happy the next day...
The bad guy in the movie – a straight middle-class Bible-quoting white male. I'm sure you get it...
The good guys win and they live happily ever after. Presumably.
The only thing even remotely interesting is that apparently the fantastical creature had the ability to cure baldness. That sort of implies being bald is bad, which is probably offensive to millions of guys.
I don't know how a movie review is supposed to look like, but on the other hand you can hardly call this a movie.
Don't waste your time/money on this, even a dentist appointment is better at this point.
Oh, and please do not leave any comment involving great visuals, poetry, power of love – all that this movie was full of is bullshit.
