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The Shape of Water (2017)
★ 7.2 · 12,812 ratings on TMDB
A fairy tale for troubled times.
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
DirectorGuillermo del Toro
The emergence reading
In The Shape of Water, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “monster romance”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing otherness, love, prejudice, authority, survival.
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