Review of The Shape of Water by Michel and Félix-Antoine

‘’The Shape of Water’’ is Guillermo Del Toro’s finest film, a touching story and a wonderful cast. It’s his most impressive work since ‘’ The Labyrinth of Pan’’ 11 years ago.

The story takes place in Baltimore, in the early ‘60s. The protagonist is a young muted woman, named Elisa (played by Sally Hawkins). She is doing night shift as a maid at a government lab. One day, a government agent shows up (played by Michael Shannon) into the lab with an amphibious humanoid creature found in the jungle of South Africa. The scientist want to test and dissect the creature to learn more from him.

But Elisa becomes fascinated with the creature (played by Doug Jones). She sneaks into the labs to create a new relationships, both of them can’t talk. So they communicate on a primal level. Elisa can feel something in the creature that others can’t feel. They are in love and they end up doing something neither could have imagined.

The movie itself is fantastic, the acting is on point, the scores is totally amazing and original, the visuals are on point and an extraordinary new story of the infamous Guillermo Del Toro.  Toro always loves his monster and will always try to make the best of what he can do.