Saludos amantes del Cine, el concurso de CineTV esta semana trata del agua, así que de inmediato supe que película escogería para mi publicación, es una de mis favoritas y no había tenido la oportunidad de escribir sobre esta espero les guste. Si quieren participar les comparto el enlace al concurso.
Greetings movie lovers, this week's CineTV contest is about water, so I immediately knew which movie I would choose for my post, it's one of my favorites and I hadn't had the opportunity to write about it, I hope you like it. If you want to participate I share the link to the contest.
The shape of water (2017)

This is a fantasy film directed by the great Guillermo del Toro, it is set in the 60s in the United States, especially in Baltimore, the protagonist is Elisa, a woman who is mute, because she was found with some marks on her neck when she was a child , she works as a cleaner in a government laboratory, that is where they have a very peculiar aquatic creature captive, it looks like a fish man, that is, it has both human and aquatic animal characteristics, the objective of scientists is to discover something importance of the creature, because in those years there are tense situations with the Russian government, however some of those involved say that they should open the creature to discover more things, but while the creature still lives in the pond it is constantly visited for Elisa who is taking care of him.

I really like that despite the fact that Elisa is mute, she can communicate by signs, but also because she has been used to communicating non-verbally all her life, it allows her to establish effective communication with the creature in the pond. I think it's great that even she gives egg for the creature to eat, she feels closer to the creature, but one day she discovers that the scientists by superior orders want to kill the creature so she devises a plan to get him out of there, for this she needed the help of a friend and a close friend.

Elisa's initial idea was to free the creature, but in the meantime she has it in the bathtub of her house and forms a relationship with it. Once things get complicated, she decides to release him in a canal when there is a storm so that he can be free in the water, which is where she should always have been, but things don't work out the way they're supposed to. I don't want to tell you the end, but among the most peculiar traits of the aquatic creature is that this man has feelings, he loves Elisa, he also has incredible healing abilities, he is a creature that can heal but at the same time is very vulnerable outside the water, so it can't live outside with humans.

The marine world is incredibly diverse, even today the species in the deep sea are not fully known, I am not saying that this fish man can exist, but what I am saying is that humanity knows very little, an example of this are the whales, who have their own languages, their customs and culture that they transmit from generation to generation and even when they may be of the same species because they are located in different areas, they may have a different language and adapted hunting style, but what some they shouldn't is that whales are mammals that once they evolved as terrestrial at one point in their evolutionary history decided to return to the sea and thus modify their body to the aquatic environment but without ceasing to be mammals, then imagine the evolutionary possibilities that could happen in thousands or millions of years if we human beings suddenly return to an aquatic environment, we will be able to develop mechanisms for swimming or breathing underwater (something similar to the protagonist of Waterworld), once I read that in a certain part of the world a tribe of people was the only one in the world capable of supporting without breathing underwater, this is due to their customs of seeking sustenance under the sea. Movies like the shape of water make me think a lot about the evolution of living beings and how the sea could have thousands of species that have not yet been discovered.

The film The Shape of Water, beyond touching on a theme of romance and fantasy, I think it deals with the issue of respect that human beings should have towards other species, of how scientific research should not cross certain limits, it is not just about a being aquatic with human characteristics. I think that the imagination can fall short if we compare it with reality, besides that the sea is immense and we will never know what is really there.

# Espero les haya gustado. Les invito a leer mis próximas publicaciones y siempre estaré dispuesta a responder sus preguntas y comentarios, también pueden seguirme y contactarme en cualquiera de mis redes sociales. ¡Muchas gracias!
I hope you liked it. I invite you to read my next publications and I will always be willing to answer your questions and comments, you can also follow me and contact me on any of my social networks. Thank you!

