THE SHAPE OF WATER – ipasm.com

THE SHAPE OF WATER is a dreamy imaginary movie about a silent guardian Elisa Esposito played by Sally Hawkins who at a high security government laboratory became a friend with an apprehended creature that is both human and a cold-blooded vertebrate that spends some time on land but was breed in water like a toad. Elisa Esposito became a mute due to a neck injury she had as a baby and uses sign language to communicate. She lives alone in a flat over a movie theater and works as a janitor in a clandestine government laboratory in Baltimore in the early 1960s through the Cold War. She has just two friends, her next door neighbor, Giles played by Richard Jenkins, a struggling advertisement illustrator who is gay, and her co-worker, Zelda Delilah Fuller played by Octavia Spencer, an African American woman who is also Elisa Esposito translator at work. The other actors in THE SHAPE OF WATER are Doug Jones played Amphibian Man; Michael Shannon played Colonel Richard Strickland; Nick Searcy played General Frank Hoyt; Michael Stuhlbarg played Dimitri Mosenkov and Dr. Robert Hoffstetler; David Hewlett played Fleming; Lauren Lee Smith played Elaine Strickland. THE SHAPE OF WATER is directed by Guillermo del Toro and scripted by Vanessa Taylor and Guillermo del Toro.