![]() ![]() There are no out-of-place ingredients here in the mix. This means that it is an amalgam of mythological types and ideas tossed together as a kind of cinematic salad, but like a really good salad prepared by a master chef. ![]() The Shape of Water is a del Toro film par excellence. del Toro has made seven films for adults and only four for children. ![]() It is a sad commentary on contemporary cinema that the existence of superhero movies in a filmmaker’s filmography denotes that filmmaker as a maker of movies for teenagers. His more juvenile films- Blade 2, the Hellboy movies, and Pacific Rim-are the outliers. The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s latest film, is a fairy tale for adults, like–I was going to liken The Shape of Water to del Toro’s celebrated Pan’s Labyrinth here, but then I realized that “fairy tales for adults” is basically what del Toro does all the time. ![]()
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