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One of the first reviews on Letterboxd mentioned the fact that Elisa's friends didn't kinkshame her for doing it and how this person needs the same love and support from her friends.

And, admittedly, it is a funny meme review and I'm certain that this particular person knows what the movie is about anyway, it's just a funny review to get likes on Letterboxd. The thing is that plenty of other people, essentially, summed down the movie to just that. It's a movie about a woman who fucks a 'fish', even though there's a difference between amphibians and fishes.

Regardless, summarizing the film to something as simple as that is sort of, honestly, missing the point about the movie and they simply did not bother to look beyond the film's outward appearance, they didn't bother looking into the film on a deeper level and understand the connection that was built between Elisa and the amphibian man.

In short, I think this really is one of the loveliest romance stories I've seen in quite some time. But, once again, what the movie does quite best is give voice to the voiceless, in this case quite literally as Elisa cannot speak. Another reason why, I feel, the film works is the fact that all of its major characters are in a state of loneliness. The film's main theme IS loneliness.

Elisa is lonely as a result of the fact that she's mute and her feeling that she won't be able to connect with someone else, as they might see her limitations instead of who she is. Giles, Elisa's best friend, is a struggling illustrator who also happens to be a gay man in the 60s, when that was looked down upon even more so than it is now in some states.

Zelda, Elisa's co-worker as a cleaner at this secret government lab, has an useless husband who does nothing around the house but watch TV. Strickland, a colonel who is in charge of the project to study the asset ie: the amphibian man is a workaholic who is distant with his wife and children. And, finally, Dimitri is a Soviet spy who does not feel at home in the U.

S nor with his own people as they are actively trying to undermine the project by eliminating the asset. So, again, you can see how all of these people, in their own way, are all struggling with their loneliness, even if we're shown the movie, mostly, from Elisa's point of view. Every few minutes, there's the constant reminder of water thrown in your face. And, to me, I think that plays precisely into the loneliness these characters feels.

I don't think there's a lonelier place in the world than in the vast expanse of the ocean. In many ways, you could make the argument that Elisa and the amphibian man were in the same ocean and even with how vast and empty it is, they managed to find each other. And, honestly, that's just lovely storytelling to me. But, of course, not all is flowers and sunshine as the movie, which is set against the backdrop of the Cold War, sees the Soviets and the U.

S covertly fight against the other to gain control of the 'asset', as they want to study them to see if it can give them an advantage against the other. There comes a point when both the U. S and the Soviets both want to kill the amphibian man and this is when Elisa springs into action to save him, with help from Giles, Dimitri and Zelda, from the laboratory and release him back to the ocean at a later date.

As far as villains go, I think Michael Shannon does a phenomenal job as Strickland. Like I said earlier, he is a man who is fully concentrated on the job at hand, he needs to get the results no matter what. I think it's an interesting story to tell because when the amphibian man is freed from the lab, Strickland goes to his higher ups and essentially tells him that, regardless of how well he may have performed or gotten results in the past, that this one fuck up, if he doesn't fix things before it's too late, will end up destroying his entire career.

So, really, Strickland is not a man that is driven by his own personal motivations. I mean, technically, he is, but he is driven by the fact that he always gets the job done, no matter what. Michael Shannon, as always, plays this role tremendously with the quiet intensity that is required to make Strickland an incredibly threatening character. Sally Hawkins is absolutely phenomenal as Elisa, she delivers a nuanced, sympathetic and, in a word that I'm using quite a lot, lovely performance.

One of the best scenes in the entire movie is Elisa explaining to Giles, in sign language while Giles repeats what she says out loud, why she cares so much for the amphibian man and Sally is so amazing here.

She conveys complex emotions without ever uttering a single word. It is a beautiful scene. Another one of my personal favorites is the black and white song and dance that Elisa does, she 'sings' the song in sign language, while it turns to black and white and, in a dream sequence, Elisa's voice is heard for the first and only time in the movie, and she and the amphibian man share a dance together.

I hate to keep repeating myself, but it is a lovely scene. I think the movie itself might have been received 'negatively' by people who expected a more straightforward monster movie. Technically we got one, if you consider Strickland the real monster of the movie which, in a way, he definitely was given his actions.

I think the marketing material, in my opinion, made it clear that it wasn't gonna be a conventional creature feature and that's not Del Toro's style anyway, you knew it wasn't gonna be what some people might have expected.

But that doesn't diminish the impact this film has made in any significant way. It might be different than what a lot of people expected, but it's still a fantastic movie. Del Toro's visual style remains intact and this very much contains that very distinctive touch.

In many ways, however, visually at least, it reminds me of a movie that Jean-Pierre Jeunet would make. For those of you who don't know, Mr. I don't know if Del Toro drew inspiration from Mr.

Jeunet, but the visual similarities are there. I don't mean this as a criticism, of course, just thought it was something worth pointing out. It still feels very much like a Del Toro movie, that much is obvious. Long story short, I thought this was a fantastic and lovely movie. It's a movie that has been simplified to tell this narrative of the fact that it's the 'fish fucking' movie which, again, misses the point of the story this movie tells.

And that is a real fucking shame, because this is a beautiful love story. An emotionally charged, tremendously acted, wonderfully shot and intelligent love story. In many ways this is also a tribute to the old Hollywood classics and you know that the classics never get old. So, for that, to use a classic old meme, this is still a better love story than Twilight. Ah, like I said, the classics memes never get old. Jesse O Super Reviewer.

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