NP - wallowing in the banal

[Joseph Tracy]

I don’t quite get what people mean by mawkish. Sentimenatlized sickliness is not what I think of with this film maker, but even if his work has some of that it still intrigues me because he seems to be interested in the way weakness connects to strength, and the whole phenomena of unlikely allies.  
  I have been working on an essay called beautiful monsters, which actually is what I thought of in hearing an outline of the Shape of Water story. Haven’t gone out for a movie since Ghost Story.( that too may  have been mawkish, but I found it also thought provoking.) No close theatres here so it will be a trek in a severe cold spell to see it, but I am hoping for food for thought on my essay in progress. 

Is anyone attempting powerful satire in film? Any suggestions?  
    
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