I watched this film two weeks before the Oscars. The whole film was weird and depressing, and the ending was extremely romantic. I actually saw tears in the cinema. When I came back, I was going to write a movie review, but I put it on hold because I was too busy (lazy) recently.
At the 90th Academy Awards, when it was announced that The Shape of Water was the best picture, I was genuinely happy for it, because it was one of my favorite movies I've seen this year. I haven't seen the three billboards next door, and I can't compare them. Some people think The Shape of Water can't afford the Oscar statuette, and some people say they prefer three billboards (/Dunkirk/Darkest Hour/...) , I also feel normal. Movie preferences are a very personal thing.
But today I saw someone commenting that this movie is "straight men's bad taste", the heroine is "desire dissatisfaction", and this film is "Beauty and the Beast", I just sat up in shock from the dying disease, struggling to recover from the winter Climbing in front of the computer in Ye's bed, he wanted to complain about The Shape of Water.
Here's a quote:
Why is it always "Beauty and the Beast"? ? A dumb girl with a good face and a body will fall in love with a wild animal from the Amazon because she is not satisfied with her desires? ? Straight male cancer is really disgusting. If you have the ability to shoot "The Handsome Guy and the Beast", let Xiao Xianrou hug a female beast naked and see how many viewers buy it? !
First of all, the character of the heroine is definitely not a beauty. No offense to the actors, but Sarah Hawkins has never been known for being a beauty, and her appearance in the film has absolutely nothing to do with "good face and body". The title of the movie is narrated in the tone of Mr. Landlord, calling the heroine a "princess", but the appearance of this "princess" makes it clear that this is not a fairy tale in the traditional sense. Of course, this is still an R-rated film, and I have told everyone from the time of selling movie tickets that we have nothing to do with fairy tales.
The unremarkable dumb female cleaner lives in an apartment without a bed. She lives a regular and boring life every day, and even masturbates regularly at the prescribed time to meet her physiological needs. The only friends are Mr. Gay the landlord and the chattering fellow cleaner. Does she have anything to do with Disney princesses?
Is the heroine's personality dissatisfied? If the desire is dissatisfied, the heroine should be a promiscuous character, isn't it? Women also have normal physiological needs, and choose to masturbate in order to reasonably meet their own physiological needs. The setting of such a heroine is simply one of the most feminist settings in this movie.
The background of the story takes place during the Cold War. In America at that time, discrimination, arrogance, prejudice, and indifference. There is no LGBT political correctness and no racism to be boycotted. Many people don't like the film because its tone is too gloomy, lonely and depressing throughout. Almost every character is lonely and not understood.
The landlord is a despondent old gay painter, his paintings can't be sold, and the clients and the manager don't respect him; the restaurant guy he likes is homophobic or a bastard who discriminates against blacks. My colleague, Aunt Hei, and my husband at home are lazy and indifferent. A bastard boss, unable to tolerate his own failures, unable to appreciate the warmth the family should bring, cruel to others and even more cruel to himself. Spy scientist, unable to realize his beliefs as a scientist, and the complexity of his identity makes him unable to get the attention of others. Everyone is lonely.
When the landlord decided to help the heroine, he said that he only had the heroine as a friend. He is lonely and lonely, and needs to cuddle with the heroine to keep warm.
The heroine will fall in love with murlocs because they are the same kind. They also can't speak, they are discriminated against, ignored, and lonely. Their love is nothing but two lonely souls hugging each other for warmth. Why is it an interracial relationship? Why are so many people unacceptable "human beasts"? Why is the setting of the mermaid so ugly and disgusting?
Of course, it's not because the heroine uses a fish man as a tool to vent her desires. Appearance doesn't matter anymore, what they fell in love with was each other's souls.
Because the heroine is unsightly and unremarkable, because the murlocs are ugly and sticky and disgusting, and because there is no external decoration to ensure the purity of love, this movie is hopelessly romantic.
Such pure love, who said it is not a fairy tale? Thinking about it carefully, isn't the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast also a story that focuses on expressing the soul who loves beyond the appearance? When children read it, they will only be moved by the love between Bella and the Beast, and only adults will respond maliciously to detoxification from a wretched angle.
Thanks to the top, telling a story that is weird and dark and even a little disgusting to think about it so naturally.
The ending is the most fairy tale-like place in the whole film. The heroine became a murloc, and they lived happily ever after together. Under the depression and loneliness along the way, this ending seems incomparably romantic. Suspiciously romantic maybe the ending is just the landlord's imagination. Yes, reality is cold, cruel, utilitarian, and indifferent. Full of oppression and brutal domination by power. In the world of fairy tales, under such an indifferent reality, there is still pure love, kindness regardless of everything, and the warmth of hugging each other.
How romantic, how fairy tale, how unrealistic, how tearful.
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