The shape of love
Guillermo Del Toro made a movie about a humanoid sea monster from the Amazons that falls in love with a mute woman who works at the facility as a janitor where he is kept captive. The story takes place at a government secret labpratory where there are many hidden secrets, but none of them has caught the attention of Elisa, the janitor, who marvelled at this ancient god of the river. She is capable of doing the impossible to keep him from harm.
It is a love story with a twist. It may seem impossible to find love in a place where nobody notices janitors, much less a mute one, and an amphibian who is taken from his world to be all alone. We may think of it as a modern (1962) Romeo and Julliet, both alone in the world meant to find each other to find a purpose in their lonely lives.
The movie shows us that love is not only an attraction nor something that seems to be perfect, but the opposite: it is a complex action that keeps bringing differences together. This happens not to make them the same, but as a constant confirmation of what it may seem impossible to live with but cannot live without. Love is learning to aknowledge the differences and accepting them and fall in love with them, and make it work for as long as we can.
It may seem impossible for a mute woman to fall in love, but she makes the choice to be with someone other than herself and to take care of others. A sea monster in this case is worth the fight to make a stand for her happiness and to achive it.
Giles: [interpreting Elisa] When he looks at me, the way he looks at me… He does not know, what I lack… Or – how – I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I – am, as I am. He’s happy – to see me. Every time. Every day. Now, I can either save him… or let him die.
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