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The Shape Of Water Movie Review

THE SHAPE OF WATER REVIEW RATING: 4.5/5 Stars
STAR CAST: Sally Hawkins, Micheal Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Octavia Spencer, Micheal Stuhlbarg
DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro


STORY
The Shape Of Water is the story of a mute woman Elisa [Played by Sally Hawkins] who has an love affair with a swamp monster [Played by Doug Jones]. Opening narration by Elisa's neighbor [played by Richard Jenkins] describes Elisa as a "princess without voice". Talking about Elisa, she was found in a river with wounds on her neck. She communicates with the help of sign language and lives alone in an apartment above a cinema. She works as a cleaning woman at a secret government laboratory where she finds a mysterious creature captured from a river in South America by Colonel Richard Strikland [played by Micheal Shannon]. Elisa finds out that the mysterious monster is a humanoid amphibian whom she starts visiting in secret and slowly develops a close bond.
To American advantage in the Space Race, government wants to vivisect it and when Elisa learns about the evil plan she rescues the creature with the help of her close colleague Zelda [played by Octavia Spencer], her neighbor Giles [played by Richard Jenkins] and a scientist Robert Hoffsteler [played by Micheal Stuhlbarg].
Elisa keeps the creature in her bathtub and slowly they become romantically involved. They share a sexual relation with in her bathroom, which she fills completely with water.
As planned Elisa goes to release the creature in water where Strikland arrives and attacks them, and both appears to die. However the creature heals himself and kills Strikland, takes Elisa and jumps into the canal, deep under the water he heals her. The scars on her neck opens to reveal gills like his. The closing voice-over narration lets us know that they lived happiley ever after.

ACTOR'S PERFORMANCES
Every actor in the movie have justified there character and are excellent in there role. I personally loved the performance of all the actors specially of Sally Hawkins as a mute woman. She is just fantastic and I literally fall in love with her.

DIRECTION AND OTHER TECHNICAL ASPECT
This is probably the best directorial of director Guillermo del Toro where he shows us an unusual love story in the best way possible. Let it be cinematography, background score, music or editing everything in this movie is just AWESOME.

LAST WORD
If you want to see some extraordinary love story this is the movie made for you. Just go and enjoy this masterpiece in silver screen.


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