The film uses the Cold War period as the background of the story. The theme is loneliness, dumb, gay, spy, and water monster. Everyone is a different kind of society and needs a lot of time to get along with themselves. The tone of the movie is very full, and the director will tell the story through the color. The music is also full and dense, a bit overwhelming the audience. The movie once again pays homage to Hollywood in the same way. The sub-set of science fiction is thrilling and bloody, and the second half is even a bit cruel. The plot is coincidental and deliberate. The overall reflects the Hollywood film industry: the technology is perfect, the plot is compact, the audiovisual is full, and there is no new idea. In short, there are already signs of decline in the Hollywood film industry.
"The Shape of Water" creates the kind of retro feeling that has existed, but is far away from us. The black and white song and dance film on TV in the film adds another layer of doubts about the age, which dilutes the background of the times. This double age difference, In contrast with the surreal setting, the whole film is similar to a romantic fairy tale.
