I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her - of Elisa - the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: "Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere.
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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa Sally Hawkins is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda Octavia Spencer discover a secret classified experiment. Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language. Did you know Edit. Trivia Director Guillermo del Toro said about Sally Hawkins , "Not only was she the first choice, she was the only choice.
The Shape of Water absolutely was one of my favorite films of and was fully deserving of the acclaim and recognition it earned. I loved that this film, at its core, is a deconstruction of the classic monster movie mythos where the creature in question would often be a being of fear and murderous intent. I've never been fully able to align my thinking that way as there is a great amount of empathy to be given the creature.
As this film pulls a lot of obvious inspiration from The Creature From The Black Lagoon and more specifically its sequel Revenge of the Creature , we're given a being that, by all constipated terminology, would be classified as a monster, but it's also given a true heart in the form of Sally Hawkins' Elisa. Both are beings out of place and time with the world around them making their connection unexpected but welcome and relatable.
While Elisa does have friends who care about her, she doesn't experience true love and respect until the Amphibian Man rises out of the water and the pair shares a hard boiled egg together. It's pretty wild to see where del Toro decided to take the material considering the marketplace and the undoubted pressure to make the film a more marketable PG While there is a lovable sense of whimsy to the film the characters' respective journies - it is decidedly not a kid-friendly feature, and all the better for it.
I would be remiss to discuss The Shape of Water in too much detail as there are a number of plot points and important themes at play I would rather not color anyone's expectations further.
Michael Shannon's Strickland is a particularly tough character to discuss without A: spoiling key events and B: coloring the film with any personal biases. The film has already been saddled with the weight of being 'Best Picture of the Year,' the film doesn't need my takeaways to burden it further. I want people to be able to glean their own intersections without me drawing the roadmap. Suffice to say I liked where it went with the material.
I liked how each character arguably is in the search for love and connection. They each have their own ways of trying to make these connections and they all succeed and fail in their own ways. No, probably not. Similarly to how Scorsese nabbed his Best Director Oscar for The Departed , I would say that it is a deserving win for del Toro, but not necessarily for his best film.
Still, it's an accolade that has been a long time coming for the man who celebrates monsters and the beauty they bring cinema.
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