Review of The Shape of Water (2017) by Tony1984 — 05 Mar 2018
On the positive side I really like the retro noir style. It felt like the Biosphere game in non animated form. Technically this movie is very good. Costume , makeup, design etc are excellent. Sally Hawkins is an outstanding lead.
This could have been a great love story in the French style. It could even have been a classic up there with ET but it is not. It handicapped itself with political correctness. The villain is a ham fisted crude clumsy caricature that is so crass it's embarrassing.
Michael Shannon just reprises the role he had in Boardwalk empire as the immoral horrible white straight Christian American ( By inference, all WSCA are horrible and immoral which is plain bigotry in a movie supposedly battling prejudice).
And the good guys are gay, black, disabled and a communist. That's just too propagandist for me. Too alienating.
This review of The Shape of Water (2017) was written by Tony1984 on 05 Mar 2018.
The Shape of Water has generally received very positive reviews.
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