A delicate high-sugar cake studded with whipped cream and strawberry jam. It's not working anymore. Andersen's fairy tales for adults have exaggerated plots, and the connection is also full of flashy flavors made up of fairy tales. From the simple point of view of the plot, they are quite satisfactory or even naive. However, from the beginning to the end, I only feel lonely, so lonely, so lonely that people can't breathe. In the movie, all the characters are too lonely. Heroine, dumb, lonely, old neighbor, empty nest, lonely, heroine colleague, marriage, lonely, Russian doctor, abandoned by the motherland, lonely, holding an electric baton, happy family but still, lonely. What about the protagonist? Whether called a monster or a god, he is alone. The shape of water makes me feel that even the "gods" that humans believe in are lonely. The human race is destined to be lonely in this world, and no one can escape the fate. The saddest thing for me is that the heroine said this (can't remember the lines, roughly what it meant): He couldn't speak either, and like me, he never thought I was a flaw. Because of this "common defect", the heroine does not feel lonely, and she has found her own kind. This got me thinking of a way to comfort someone: You just tell him that you are as miserable as him or worse than him and he will be comforted. Because I find someone who has the same "defects" or "certain characteristics" as myself, I feel that I have found a similar person, I am understood, and I am not alone. This is how humans relieve loneliness. A self-inflicted redemption. So sad.
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