“It’s one thing to ask audiences to suspend belief for this fairy tale, and it’s a whole other thing to ask them to consider for one moment that an otherwise sane woman would be so desperate as to fall for a creature who can’t even survive on dry land–not when there are actual men in this town.”
Haha man someone tell this dude that he is not the hot commodity that he thinks he is and personally speaking I for one am eager to get away from actual men and be whisked into the loving arms of a fishman.
id fuck a fish monster before even giving my number to a man who admits his best quality is being able to survive on dry land
I actually read the review, and it seems the writer is utterly unsure why any woman would want to fuck a fish. So I decided to explain why anyone would want to fuck Monsters.
It’s explained why in the damn trailer. The lovely princess is practically hysterical when she says that the fish man doesn’t see her as ‘missing parts’. He never sees her muteness, the fact that she isn’t ‘whole’. The fact that her prince can learn to love, accept her, and show her kindness without any pity or seeing her as ‘broken’ is why she falls in love with him.
In a society that is quick to judge who is ‘,broken’ , ‘fractured’, or ‘not right’, Monsters are appealing because they wouldn’t rely on human conventions to make the choice to love you. You can be beautiful, amazing, and well…you. The idea is that the Monster won’t spurn you, for being yourself.
In this world full of people, how many can say that they were accepted for all their flaws and faults? Does this reviewer honestly think so highly of himself, to not be able to understand a basic lesson on acceptance?
Very few people in this world are accepting. However the things not of this world, maybe they’re the keys to a happier future.
Ok but real talk…
Five bucks says this guy never thinks it’s weird that there are sexy pin-up mermaids
Yeah, but what I find very contentious about those fairy tales is that they are all pivoted on perfection and transformation, meaning the princess needs to be an innocent – a perfect innocent, you know? And then it sort of embodies a male idea of the female role. And, you know, she needs to be pure and altruistic, and she doesn’t seem three-dimensional to me. She doesn’t seem complex. And we take care of it in the movie in many ways, including showing that she has her own sex life in a lonely way – or in alone away, but not lonely, you know? And we also give her a life that is not grand, but very fulfilling.
And we don’t transform the creature. We don’t transform it into a boring prince at the end of the movie so that they can be together forever. He stays in its carnal form – an animal. And he still has a very controversial diet of raw protein that includes cats, you know? And he doesn’t get civilized and eat a cat with a fork and a knife.
It still is what it is because to me, if we’re going to talk about love, we’re going to talk about understanding, not transformation
Guillermo del Toro, on The Shape of Water as a modern fairy tale.
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