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When I first heard about "The Shape of water" I am expecting another "Pan's Labyrinth,"
which so perfectly able to combine the story of dark fantasy border with the history of World
War II. My appetite further aroused by the fact that del Toro win the Golden Lion at the
Venice Film Festival, where he defeated among others outstanding "Three billboards for
Ebbing, Missouri." Unfortunately, the reality turned out to be brutal and my expectations were
quickly verified. Today, a few days after the Academy Awards I can confidently say that this
is one of the larger University of mishaps over the past few years. The creator of "Pan's
Labyrinth" takes us on a fairy-tale journey where fantasy mingles with the gray reality. Elisa
(Sally Hawkins) is a mute, who works as a caretaker in a secret laboratory where various
experiments are carried out and research. One day a woman encounters a strange creature -
a hybrid of man and fish. Together with a colleague from work Zelda (Octavia Spencer) and a
friend of Giles (Richard Jenkins) decides to rescue the creature against the despotic Richard
Strickland (Michael Shannon). Sally Hawkins Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
"Shape of Water" is nothing like "Pan's Labyrinth" and other works of fantasy, which as
readily derive from other species. Del Toro offers us a clumsy combination of fairy tales with
a touch of romance with a woman ...

fish! There would be nothing wrong, after all, in a fairy tale, everything is possible.
Unfortunately, the "Shape of Water" by his deadly serious tone and lack of distance to the
story falls extremely grotesque and caricature. The scene in which Elisa begins to dance with
a water creature like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers looks like a parody pulled out of Mel
Brooks (if anyone remembers dancing with Xenomorph "Space Egg"). History also does not
defend as a story about tolerance. Instead of wasting time on film, while Del Toro once again
better view spielbergowskiego "E.T." or "District 9," Neill Blomkamp, which fared much better
with a story of timeless values, at the same time without falling into banality.

"The shape of the water" sinks under the weight of political correctness. Once again I have
the impression that the developers try to force go after every possible minority just to suck up
to the Academy.

And so we find here spurned cripple, unhappy gay, African-American working-class (which,
of course, must play a full-time Hollywood martyr, the Octavia Spencer) and a white,
heterosexual capitalist in the role of villain. This correctness could still somehow swallow, if
not the fact that "the shape of water" from the beginning until the very end of the work is
secondary. The motivations of the characters are known from the first moment when I look at
them, no one was surprised.

I ran out of shades of gray in the black-and-white world. Michael Shannon, Michael
Stuhlbarg, Guillermo del Toro, David Hewlett Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation under
the weight of the film defects, however, we can find some good. First of all it is worth to pay
attention to the beautiful visuals. Dark pictures give the story the right mood, enjoying the
references to old movies. And finally, characterization, under which hid Doug Jones, makes a
great impression, because the water looks really cool thing. In addition, atmospheric music
by Alexandre Desplat (next to the scenery only a well-deserved Oscar for "Shape of water")
enhances the magical atmosphere, which unfortunately is destroyed by the secondary and
ridiculous story. Del Toro wanted his story to connect species (not just the film), but it seems
to me that this love will not survive the test of time, and soon "Shape of Water" will be
remembered as a movie about a woman's affair with a man-fish. It is a pity that once again,
Oscar was handed due to political sympathies, and not on the actual value of the film work.
Unfortunately, this story is not my story ... ....