Written by James M. Tate / 2/12/2018 / No comments / 2018 , michael shannon , new , richard jenkins , romance , sally hawkins , science-fiction , thriller
MAKING A 'SPLASH' OUT OF 'THE SHAPE OF WATER'
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Year of Release: 2017 Wide Release/Reviewed: 2018 |
WATER starts out in a dark, icky-green-lit military compound where an aquatic humanoid creature is trapped and tormented — and then befriends a young girl/employee, and that's exactly the kind of place SPLASH winds up... and ends pretty quickly thereafter while WATER remains stagnant until she's... or rather... he is rescued by, like SPLASH, an odd, flawed yet lovable group of endearing underdogs, who outsmart the tight-security military bad guys... or in this case... bad guy, singular...
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While THE SHAPE OF WATER is promoted as a body-count creature feature, it's actually a loaded time-capsule romance teaching the new generation (or reminding the old one) that the 1960's were full of either racists, homophobes or their open-minded, non-judgmental victims. Meanwhile, THE HELP actress Octavia Spencer plays the kind of "funny black sidekick" that 90's throwback Jackée was once scoffed at for being a typecast female Stepin Fetchit, and not even as good...
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ShapeScore: ** |
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Because of these kind of heavy-handed, overly-obvious political agendas there is rarely a story to carry out the plot or theme, which should offer, not force, a message — the tail no longer wags the dog, it is the dog. And for those who just want a "strange, different kind of love story," rewatch the original KING KONG. It's far more romantic, the "couple" has better chemistry, and it actually has a beginning, middle, and end.
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