The Shape Of Water (2018) - HER And IT... Phew...
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The title reminds me of a song relevant not to this film but to
another; the story, of ‘Beauty and the Beast’, of which I’m not interested in
checking out any version anyway, because I find the love between a beast and a
beauty sort of weird and spooky and gross. So, there’s no romance or comfort or
thrills for me in ‘The Shape Of Water’. Yeah, the close interactions between
HER and IT are expected but it takes place all too sudden and easy. The final
kiss in the final act, and a poem to wrap it up… phew… give me a break here!
‘Love’ is somewhat different than ‘compassion’. If you, say, love a
flower, you’d pick it and take it with you and make it yours. But if you have
compassion for it, you’d leave it where it is and nurture it instead. ‘Love’ is
just another expression of selfishness and obsessions, while ‘compassion’ that
is the manifestation of giving freedom and absence of judgment, is indeed what you should show when you really are not giving up on someone or
something! In the film, not only does IT take HER away in the end, IT also makes HER ‘one
of its kind’! Well, if that’s not ‘love’, I don’t know what it is then!
In case you’re still curious about what song I mentioned above, last
but not least…
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