At the 90th Academy Awards, it won for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score. A movie that was directed by Guillermo del Toro, who is famous for his monster movies and honestly to me he is the only man i can think can make a movie like this.

the movie is about Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins), who works as a cleaner at a secret government laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland in 1962, at the height of the Cold War. Due to a wounds on her neck she has been mute since childhood and utilises sign language to communicate. being a person to keep to herself she only has 2 close colleagues,a Closeted next-door neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins), a middle-aged struggling advertising illustrator, and her African American co-worker Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer). it just happens to be that in the secret facility they work in a mysterious creature captured from a South American river and Colonel Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon) is in charge of the project to study it. 

by accident Elisa ends up meeting the mysterious creature which turns out to be a Amphibian man (Doug Jones), a she starts visiting him often among them a special bond arises. Elisa upon hearing that the Creatures life was in danger smuggles it out of the facility to her home to keep him safe, waiting for the right time to take him to safety. this is where getting to know of the asset’s disappearance The colonel starts tracking them down. catching them at the canal where elisa was gonna release the amphibian man. a tussle ensues witch results in the creature an elisa getting shot here the am amphibian man uses his power to heal himself and kill the colonel, and takes Elisa to the sea and heals her.

the thing that bugs me about this movie, was how it won the best picture in Oscars, the thing that intrigued me to watch it in the first place. now i am not implying its not worthy it surly is worthy yet to me it feels to bland of a film to be the winner. it is well directed has amazing visual effects all such awards felt justified yet. overall the film never made me feel much for the character with each change in stakes and scenarios it felt predictable. now this all might be a personal taste in the matter but with other nomination’s like Dunkirk and Get Out in the list the result just didn’t sit well with me.

i had to add the pictures to showcase the grand visuals of the movie done in a practical manner, now a days when such creation often gets taken to the green screen Guillermo del Toro, having his experience as former special effects makeup artist, brings his creatures and their worlds with practical effects and makeups. and when seeing the movie with that in mind the movie seems unique and beautiful. A special kudos to the performance of Doug Jones in that costume and without words to bring a creature into reality.

64 movies down………..436 to go.

see you soon

good bye