![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, a government agent, Strickland (Michael Shannon), seeks to quell any threat real or imagined by eliminating the “asset.” Together with her chatterbox colleague, Zelda (Octavia Spencer), Elisa discovers the facility’s new acquisition: a prodigious aquaman (played by Doug Jones, erstwhile Pan of the Labyrinth) who resembles the poster of a ’50s creature feature-and who reveals a gentle nature under Elisa’s ministrations. ![]() Our heroine, we’re told by the film’s narration (Richard Jenkins’s plain spoken delivery nicely grounding the fairy-tale prose), is “the princess with no voice”-Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a scarred orphan grown into a mute but irrepressibly optimistic janitor at a top-secret cold war–era govern ment lab. Like the director’s best works ( Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone), The Shape of Water embraces lonely outcasts, chimerical beings, and meticulous design, set against a politically turbulent mid-20th-century canvas. ![]()
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