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I need to see this.
Not released until 12/22. There are a few limited screenings in majors cities, for award buzz.WTF is going on with Cinemark? It's not showing this movie this week, next week, or the week after. Neither is the smaller theater just outside of town.
@Anung Un Rama
Since you are one of the few who have seen this movie let me ask you a question.
I just saw it and I'm struggling with my thoughts on the film. One thing that I am pretty confident in saying is that I'm not sure I bought the actual relationship between Elisa and Amphibian Man. Going to use spoiler tags for the next few sentencesThe scenes with her and him are fantastic. I like watching her feed him eggs and teach him sign language but I felt the jump from that to them having sex was so abrupt. Could have used more scenes to flesh this out a lot more
There was also some subplots that never go anywhere. It felt tarantinoish by just adding pointless stuff to the movieWhat was the point to any of that? Why did Del Toro want to show us all this Giles stuff that leads to absolutly nowhere. Take all that stuff out and add more Elisa and Amphibian Man scenes.Elisa's neighbor Giles and his pie stuff was very weird. The entire subplot of him losing his job and trying to get back into the company. Him trying to have sex with the guy from the dinner
I hope you agree with me Anung especially on that last part
I think the movie is a fantastic movie really but there are some really questionable decisions going on.
I want to rate this movie a 9/10 but I cant for the issues I talked about above. I am going to go 8/10 on this one.
3. Creating a fantasy sequence whereyour beautifully mute protagonist starts singing is just giving their disability the middle finger. That's like making a film about a protagonist you grow overwhelmingly comfortable with being wheel-chair bound who suddenly starts breakdancing in their dreams