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This movie was beautiful and luscious and erotic and fun and touching and just a wonderful experience. I loved the way Del Toro uses splashes of color against a kind of muted noir landscape in a lot of scenes. Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Richard Jenkins are great as usual but holy poo poo Sally Hawkins. I thought she was just incredible. One thing I appreciated about this film (without getting into spoilers) was how weird it was willing to get. This film could have played it safe, but it dips into some VERY "unsafe" sequences, bursts of eroticism or even gross violence. I treasure films that zag on me, that take me to interesting emotional places by being willing to experiment and explore. Shape of Water is definitely on my top ten for the year.
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Sinding Johansson posted:Eh, I think being sprayed with a hose signifies a related but different idea of dehumanization/devaluation more than blackness. Rambo got sprayed with a hose. A lot of prison movies feature similar scenes. Well... a film set in the 60s with the Other being dehumanizingly hosed down by white agents of the State is a pretty specific reference to Birmingham/Civil Rights marches. Bringing up Rambo borders on being willfully obtuse unless you see a lot of other Rambo signifiers in the film? 
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