"The Shape of Water" by Guillermo del Toro. Time for Oscar? Movie review.

I'm sure Guillermo del Toro has discovered the big secret – have fun with the things you create so you can work effortlessly and with endless pleasure. That is why his films have a special radiance, like a halo of a different color, because he has put a piece of his soul in each of them and they have been an integral part of it within (at least) several years. "The Shape of Water", the latest creation the crazy, wild and super-talented Mexican, embraces viewers with the ultimate greenery of patinated bronze - with a sense of security, uniqueness and fabulous uniqueness. A story can always start with "once upon a time" - this is the magic formula capable of unlocking imagination in which mysterious water containers are guarded more than half a century in the secret laboratory of ruthless agent and in these water reservoirs a strange being tortured, charms a lonely cleaner, and she pulls him out of the forced prison, and after a lot of gaits, they both find freedom and merge their hearts. In summary, the plot sounds strange, crazy and somewhat candied, and might have become such a movie if all the metamorphoses did not happen in Guerrero del Toro's head. He was the daring storyteller who chooses princess of his story charming, but there is no cleaner, place a fateful decision in exceptional circumstances and throws it into the arms of a creature of mysterious latitudes, which resembles a human amphibian. Their love story goes as a lily of water - unexpectedly, white and unperturbed by words unspoken by prejudice, instinctive, passionate and fearless. In the name of that feeling she risk everything because her life would have no meaning if she doesn’t find the strength to follow her intuition - she felt that her only chance to see her real impact is in the eyes of one who accepts it unconditionally - no fictional pretensions, no social conventions, no universal fakes.

Quite deliberately del Toro has arranged all his characters beyond traditional expectations - phantasmagorical, lopsided, incontinent, neklishirani, unusual and totally unexpected, they create the eyes of viewers truly magical network that covers the mirror of reality. Cinema is precisely this - magic - and with its help the story comes alive outside, beyond and despite all the known tricks. One of the brave director's moves is the extraordinary casting - with Sally Hawkins's soft tenderness, with the patient, strange strangeness of his loving Doug Jones, Michael Shannon's cruel chameleon seamlessness, Richard Jenkins's delicate vulnerability, Michael Schulbarg's exact inclusions, and Octavia Spencer. Similar to the way del Toro sculpt his amphibian prince - complete with costume, impressive lighting details with charm that exudes power, he formed the other characters and a skilled puppeteer puts everyone at the right place in history. Pragmatic and logical reasons why the action takes place in the middle of the last century - except that it is possible to use ready decor, this is the time in which it is possible to happen meeting versatile conspiracies, including spy intervention by the a Soviet agent. For the overall atmosphere, the creators of the team are also responsible for all the details - from carts with cleaning materials in the secret laboratory to carpet patterns and the library in the storyteller's living room, to the rescue bath tub and plush cinema seats that revives the old lanes downstairs. Danish Danus Lavustsen's camera and lights virtuoso creates a truly authentic atmosphere, and you can’t guess in the age of computer-generated miracles how the poetic underwater scenes that began and ended the film - such mastering techniques and ingenuity have received our unreserved admiration ...

Built with a budget of less than $ 20 million, over 35 festivals literally around the world, it received over 200 awards and nominations for only the last four months of 2017 after its premiere in Venice (where his author left with Sergio Leone ", Best known as one of the most prestigious awards in the world of cinema -" The Golden Lion "), honored by almost every cinema critic community in the world as one of the masterpieces of 2017, the work of Guyermo del Toro deserves all the superlatives that are sacking at his address. It's no accident that the Hollywood foreign press awards the film is leading with nominations in seven categories - people like beautifully narrated stories, this is the truth. Whatever obstacles there are to overcome the main characters, they must love - and even with the power of feeling they will be able to defeat the evil that is always on their way. No matter how old / known / worn out these postulates, they always work flawlessly. The tremendous dignity of "The Shape of Water" is precisely the company that Del Toro offers us - daring, charming, intoxicatingly gentle. Forget the elemental comparisons with the "beauty and beast" leitmotif, pay no attention to the ubiquitous accusations of "seeking social justice" (del Toro's characters have a different social, racial and sexual affiliation, but that doesn’t really matter!) - If you can’t dive into the story, if you do not fascinate your love story, if traditional skepticism is your second nature and prevent you from seeing this movie with unbiased eyes, then you, dear spectators, may have lost the ability to be amazed vate and fun with something as natural as fascinating stories, beautiful story about ordinary people and their feelings. Del Toro offers it to us with an open heart and a devil's wink, and we, since we are his sincere admirers, thank him in absentia. And (maybe) it's time for an Oscar.

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