Be Reel:The Shape Of Water, an unexpected love story with an R rating

Hello Everyone,
Not too long ago my friend and I went to the movies for his birthday which is what we usually do. After briskly looking up what was playing at AMC the movie The Shape of Water caught both of our eyes. It was a wise choice on our part to decide to watch The Shape of Water, after watching this film its not hard to see why this film is up for best picture. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about The Shape of Water is a drama/ fantasy film directed by Guillermo Del Toro that takes place in a 1962 pre-war Baltimore government testing facility. The films plot follows the relationship between one of the newly discovered laboratory assets and Elisa( played by Sally Hawkins) one of the labs cleaners.
The two then spark a loving relationship which renders them inseparable from each other. Conflict then starts to rise as Elisa breaks the monster out of the lab. Elisa and the monster are then pursued by the relentless Mr. Strickland who plots to kill the monster. From a visual point of view there is never dull moment in this movie, every shot, transition, and mix between diegetic and non diegetic audio is perfectly mixed and edited into the film. Even the cuts from scene to scene feel natural and like flowing water (no pun intended but their actually is a cut involving water).
This movie truly is a beauty and the beast story for the theme of this movie is largely about finding beauty in things that other people find ugly. We see this in the film not only with the lab asset but throughout the films community. The film is set in the early 1960's so we do see racial discrimination against some of the supporting characters. One sequence where Elisa's neighbor who is gay tries to make an advance towards a cashier who responds negatively shoos Elisa's neighbor out of the diner and tells him to never come back. So their are obviously some very larger themes that are within the Shape of Water like racial discrimination and cultural acceptance most of these themes are represented within the relationship that goes on between the lab asset and Elisa. All in all I highly recommend the Shape of Water and for those of you who are looking into movies similar to the Shape of Water you might want to check out:
Kong: Skull Island
Beauty and the Beast
Logan
Beastly
Once Upon A Time (2012)