![]() She starts her day with a bath while she makes her lunch, she checks in on her neighbour Giles (Richard Jenkins) who is a reclusive advertisement artist, and then makes the long bus trip into work where she meets up with her co-worker and friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer). While this is happening in the city of Baltimore we are introduced to Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) as she goes about her daily routine as a cleaner for a governmental facility that is exploring aquatic phenomena. Both the Americans and the Soviets are trying to find every possible advantage over each other as the Space Race joins the Arms Race and the world tries to not die in a nuclear apocalypse because of a geopolitical dick waving contest. So to set the scene, it is deep in the Cold War where suspicions of Soviet infiltrators are everywhere and nuclear war could break out at any time. So today we are going to unpack Guillermo del Toro’s latest film The Shape of Water which is up for a fantastic 13 Oscars at the moment. Now, of course, I kid because all of these films are visually stunning and some of the most fascinating stories in modern cinema, indeed I still think about the ending of Pan’s Labyrinth. Ok a Guillermo del Toro’s monster film featuring Doug Jones, ok no that is still too many, Ok a Guillermo del Toro’s monster film featuring Doug Jones as a water monster … seriously still. So today we are looking at a Guillermo del Toro’s monster film, ok wait no that is too broad a category. ![]()
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