20 Best Movies Moments Of 2017
10. The Shape Of Water – Song & Dance Number
Guillermo del Toro’s latest fairy tale is part homage to
B-movie monsters of yore and part improbable love story starring Sally Hawkins
as Elisa Esposito – a lonely, deaf janitor who falls in love with the humanoid
fish-man (Doug Jones) that’s being retained and cruelly experimented on at the
shady government facility she works at.
As weird as it may sound The Shape of Water is really just a love story at heart despite the differences in species and regardless of the fact that the scene most people are fixated on is its fish on human sex scene which, yes, does happen and isn’t half as depraved as it sounds.
A far more touching moment comes later in the film when Elisa daydreams in stylish black and white that she and Fish-Man are performing a song and dance number on glittering stage in a scene that looks like it’s ripped straight from an old Hollywood musical.
It’s a scene that comes completely out of nowhere and departs dreamily from the film’s narrative but in a fairy tale as strangely beautiful as The Shape of Water it works.