A love story between two worlds, two completely different life forms,The Shape of Water(2017).
SPOILER ALERT
There are two types of people for this movie, either you will completely love it or you will completely hate it. If you have patience enough to read my review, you will know on which type I stand my ground.
Basically, it's all about bestiality cause any creature you want have sex with except for human is called bestiality (Will clear that thing later*). A mute girl stealing confidential GOVT research subject from a facility with ease, little to no effort, it IS really hard to believe where everyone has access to this place, including low class cleaners.
Story didn't work for me for single moment. A secret research subject that can change the universe or wars between two countries or other important things, since 5 star military personnel was assigned to it and secret agents were involved, things didn't blend at all, specially with the importance of the subject and easy-peasy lemon-squeezy type of security system. Now you may ask, why was there a secret tunnel behind research subject that leads to all the way to loading dock? Anyone can secretly get in to that tunnel and spy on the researches?! Also why wasn't a single piece of surveillance camera there in that long tunnel where as surveillance cameras are seen everywhere except for in woman's locker room? When they brought in the amphibious creature to their apartment, no one noticed it? Also when that creature ran away, also no one noticed it?
There was no effort to find that creature also. Story fell flat here. Either they show Richard Strickland (played by Michael Shannon) in his home or looking at his fingers pushing pus out of this dead fingers or smelling it. A 5 star military person is assigned to this research and ordering some guy with no backup or support to find this creature is beyond laughable.
CG and special effects were not eye catching and there were not much also but it was an ok work. Same goes for cinematography, somewhat near average more like cinematography-201, there was no magical special effects or mind blowing cinematography present in the movie.
Also they have readable key-cards to enter in the facility office but simple paper made id card (anyone can fake it if they want) that gets verified by guards to enter in the building that leads to loading dock directly, where anyone can enter the facility through that tunnel without having any readable key-cards? Are you kidding me? Then what's the point in making a front door that takes a readable key-card for entering in the facility?
There were many fine moments in this movie but since I didn't like this movie, focused on cons only.
Sorry but I didn't buy its story at all. There were a lot of plot holes, errors from technical to direction and lastly, whole story was faulty at some point. I don't mind watching fictional movies or reading them but one must have to make it believable.
Sex and masturbation scenes were completely unimportant and unnecessary. Also Giles (played by Richard Jenkins) as a Gay man was completely unnecessary. This didn't put a single change or affected the story except for empowering LGBTQ movements in real life, which is nice but not for a movie where director don't know how to use that as a element for the story.
**Ending does not explain much, whether she was a mermaid like creature from the beginning as many online theorist suggested that or whether she was turned into a mermaid like creature afterwards. If she was a mermaid like creature from the beginning, then it's big plot hole as these creatures need salt and some weird looking green stuffs in their water to survive and not excluding staying in the water for a major time of the day but if not, yeah it's all BESTIALITY.
Story : 5/10
Acting : 6/10
Cinematography : 6.5/10
Special Effects : 6.5/10
Enjoyment : 6/10
Character Development : 4/10
Honorable mention(s) : Creature can heal itself up under an instant moment but when the mute girl saw it in the aquarium bleeding from its tummy, it stayed damaged for no reason instead of healing itself. Black people have access to secret GOVT facilities and have guts to talk back and breaking rules in front of white people (notice how Zelda played by Octavia Spencer let the mute girl enter in the line before every one) in 60's, i call this BS.