The Shape of Water returns to HBO Max nine years after release
Reporting by Movieweb indicates The Shape of Water has returned to streaming on HBO Max nine years after its release and is the fourth most popular movie on HBO Max in the United States per Flix Patrol, a surge the report notes comes as Valentine's Day approaches.
The dark romantic fantasy follows Elisa, a mute, isolated cleaning woman in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore who discovers a mysterious, scaled creature from South America living in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with the creature, the film shows its fate resting in the hands of a hostile government agent and a marine biologist.
Movieweb describes how director Guillermo del Toro subverts fairy-tale tropes by giving Elisa agency and by leaving the creature unchanged, conveying a message that true love should not require transformation.
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