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Under the gloomy and eerie style, "The Shape of Water" directed by Guillermo del Toro is a heart-warming adult fairy tale. The film borrows the background of the Cold War as a reference. It is a fantasy love that crosses species, not only Especially delicate will be lonely. This kind of difficult to capture thoughts is vividly illuminated by group portraits. At the same time, the romance rendered in the dark base color brings people a resonance that touches the soul.
The story of the movie about the love of a mermaid is actually not new, but "The Shape of Water" made people feel its uniqueness from the beginning. The movie did not limit its vision to love. The Cold War background of the opening chapter, the first What time makes people feel is not the warm love, but the ubiquitous atmosphere of terror in the context of this era, whether it is a depressing and mysterious research institute, a condescending powerful general, and a mermaid researching The research on the cruel and inhuman abuse suffered in the institute has become the cornerstone of the film to outline a dark world.
Of course, the core of this film is not just to reflect on the Cold War. Through the director's lens, the female protagonist Alyssa, this seemingly introverted but eager to be different, is a cleaner and mute woman as the origin. Blacks, gays, spies, these Cold War The marginalized people in the background of the period, even representing the middle class in the United States at that time, the villains who seemed to have a happy life, Richard, the head of the government laboratory, the portrayal of their inner loneliness, became the film that really allowed the audience to induce the audience to " Loneliness is an emotional medium, so in this story of extreme lack of love, the love that crosses species has become so pure and precious.
Although "The Shape of Water" uses loneliness to reflect the beauty of love and explores human nature with a sense of hierarchy, in fact, the other side of the film also exposes a problem, which is that it ignores the emotion of the mermaid. In the film, the director has always been committed to impressing the audience through the purity and visual impact of love, but he has hardly made a deep description of the emotional changes of the mermaid, which makes the film unfold the love between the mermaid and the heroine. It is more like a kind of pity, but in the fairy tale environment set by the director, it becomes love through infinite magnification through loneliness.
At the end of the movie, the love between the mermaid and Alyssa finally surpassed everything in the world in the deep sea, drawing a happy ending for the movie, a fairy tale that comforts loneliness. Although it has its flaws, it is gentle as water and romantic. Extremely.
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