The Shape of Water
(★★★★½)
This fabulous movie is a great romance, but also a great thriller as well.
The story of Elisa, who is mute due to something terrible done to her throat in her youth, but who otherwise seems to have a pleasantly peaceful and solitary, if a bit lonely, life living above a cool old movie theater in a grand old apartment with a nice big bathtub and a quirky and charming, in a way, artist neighbor, Giles.
She is also a janitor at a strange, and seemingly highly secure, government facility, the purpose of which isn’t exactly clear. But they do seem to store specimens there. When the noxious and evil security man, Colonel Strickland, shows up with an extra strange specimen, who he dragged out of a river in South America and seemingly tortured all the way here, Elisa sees something in the creature that no one else does.
But when the political machinations of the US Army and the Soviet Union seem to spell doom for this fascinating being, Elisa turns to the only friends she has, Giles and her co-worker Zelda, for help.
A great movie, beautiful to look at, involving, nerve-wracking (as Strickland is just absolutely terrible and driven to stay that way), but also exciting, charming, a bit fantastical, and fun!
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