Shape of Water EOY movies

[Charles Albert]

SPOILER ALERT!

*and flawless credibility of plot details*

Given that Baltimore sits on a harbour, why the need to wait for the canal
to fill?

I can appreciate that it served the narrative demand, but "credibility"?

love,

cfa



On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Well 3 of us went to see Shape of Water and eat good Mexican food in Great
> Barrington. The movie was stunning and the large audience cheered and there
> were tears evident. It was simply a great movie by a man with oppropriately
> obsessive and timely  themes, and film -making talent to burn.  Everything
> about it worked for me: the timing and movement between rest and tension,
> the reconstruction of period, the use of water and color, the use of
> architectural ornament, the characters and acting, the subtext references
> and use of TV  and movie clips, the dramatic tension and flawless
> credibility of plot details within a potentally over-fantastical story. The
> creature/god clearly stood for several more mundane objects of colonial
> interest but also stood on his own as a particular being in a particular
> place. The woman was not the object of mawkish manipulation in my estimate
> but was more a soaring every-person of compassion, guts, risk and the
> glorious transcendence of pleasure and attraction.
>
> Conversation at dinner was lively and enthusiastic, food tasty in a warm
> place allowing margaritas in midwinter. Money was blown and fun was had.
>
>   For myself and my current attempts to write about a theme I am calling
> Beautiful Monsters it was a profound artistic  inspiration, even addressing
> some of the deeper proceses and personal issues that brought me to this
> theme.
>
>   -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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