In one fell swoop, he won four awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Original. The overall dark tones of the film and the beautiful soundtrack of the cinematography result in an eerie yet just-right aesthetic. Although the male and female protagonists are unable to speak, they convey a lot of emotional power to the audience, which is moving. In addition, it is not difficult to see that the film is a voice for people on the fringes of society. In this way, the love between Alyssa and the mermaid is more like a rebellion against secular prejudice. This is a film with a very neat film language. The scheduling scenes, photography images, narrative rhythm, etc. all show the director's profound skills extremely finely. The retro and gloomy tones of the whole film fit the style of fairy tales and darkness, reflecting the romantic and beautiful but sad and depressing colors of the love story of "mermaid love". In addition to love, the film is an emotional exploration of people's inner world, a deep excavation of human desires, a political satire in the context of the Cold War, and a metaphor for today's social problems! At the same time, the director poured into the film music and movie fans, which is deeply touching. When two dissimilar bodies meet, the loneliness arouses the mutual acquaintance of the soul, and they find each other's souls of the same kind! I wanted to wait for the big screen to watch, but I didn't like being damaged by special treatment, so I chose "small screen". After reading it, I like it very much. The double praise of the Venice Golden Lion and the Oscar statuette is worthy of the name! Many people said they couldn't understand "The Shape of Water". Some people didn't like it very much. They even watched it again in the cinema a few days ago. At the end of the show, they heard the girl in front say: It makes me sick to my stomach. Some disappointed and some hilarious. I used to selfishly want to hide some things I like and don't want to share them with others, but this time it seems to have become "private" directly. Some people say that this is the most personal expression of the director's spinning top, but I think it is also a personal reception of the audience. Many people say it is gentle, let me tell you why it is gentle. This is a story about a girl who falls in love with a water monster, but unlike those rotten mermaid fairy tales in the past, the water monster in the story is really a weird-looking monster covered in green scales; "Beauty and the Beast" is different, the heroine is not a Disney princess, but a cleaner who deals with stains all day, mediocre appearance, and what's worse, she is also a mute. The other characters, black female cleaners, frustrated old cabinet painters, wandering spy scientists, are not "ordinary people" in the popular sense... They are the minority, the marginal, the transparent. From ancient times to the present, these people are the most easily slandered and demonized, and there are many forces that separate them from most people, in order to make most people gain a sense of superiority: "You are different from them. All the same, because they're wrong, you're right." We hear that all the time, and we justifiably step out of the way when injustices come up, saying lightly that it's not my responsibility to stand up for them. So at the beginning, when the heroine Elisa wanted the artist Giles to rescue the water monster, Giles would refuse, because it was a water monster, and the water monster is not a human being, unlike us. But Elisa didn't think so, and she questioned Giles: If the water monsters are different from them, then she, a mute who can only communicate with her body, is also different from others. But on the other hand, Giles himself, who refused to help because the water monsters were not of the same kind—goes to the same store every day to buy a pie that he doesn’t like. When he had the courage to hand out his hand to the clerk's brother, the clerk's brother threw him out. Does just because we're different mean we can't love each other?
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