Below is a rambling article which I have cut down to its bare essentials by the rambling author at VDare, Steve Sailer. I understand that VDare is concerned with issues and stories surrounding immigration, but Sailer completely glosses over the real story of this movie: alien/human copulation.
Sometimes race and immigration aren't everything. We have now filmmakers explicitly showing a completely different type of "invasion" with an open acceptance of nefarious and satanic themes.
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Trophy Wife
Steve Sailer
March 7, 2018
Taki Mag
The Shape of Water’s plot is: A Democratic Party Coalition of the Fringes (a disabled woman, a gay man, a black woman, a Jewish Communist Russian spy, and a fish) unites to defeat the GOP Core American cishet evilest evil white male of all time (besides Trump, of course). Square-jawed white man Michael Shannon plays the epitome of hateful hate-filled white whiteness who epitomizes his white male privilege by peeing on the floor.
Sometimes race and immigration aren't everything. We have now filmmakers explicitly showing a completely different type of "invasion" with an open acceptance of nefarious and satanic themes.
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Trophy Wife
Steve Sailer
March 7, 2018
Taki Mag
The Shape of Water’s plot is: A Democratic Party Coalition of the Fringes (a disabled woman, a gay man, a black woman, a Jewish Communist Russian spy, and a fish) unites to defeat the GOP Core American cishet evilest evil white male of all time (besides Trump, of course). Square-jawed white man Michael Shannon plays the epitome of hateful hate-filled white whiteness who epitomizes his white male privilege by peeing on the floor.
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Perhaps the pandering politics of this movie is just del Toro’s Safe Space for what he really cares about, which is colors. Nobody who matters is going to give del Toro trouble for his hate-whiteyness, and that frees him up to obsess over the colors he really cares about: not partisan red vs. blue, but red vs. green. The Shape of Water is constructed around a color scheme where red represents the beloved nostalgic past and green signifies the hideous technological future.
If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, then del Toro is a genius at imposing his childlike fanaticism about how red is his favorite color and green is his most hated color on every single frame in the movie.
On the other hand, I kind of like green. I’m trying to get my lawn to turn green now that it has finally started raining in Southern California.
Granted, I’m not as aesthetic or as stylish as del Toro.
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...Guillermo del Toro (who is not to be confused with the very cool Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro) is sort of the Mexican Tim Burton, if the Burbank-born Burton weren’t quite so swarthy. Del Toro looks about as pale as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, an early fatality in the ongoing White Death.
...Guillermo del Toro (who is not to be confused with the very cool Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro) is sort of the Mexican Tim Burton, if the Burbank-born Burton weren’t quite so swarthy. Del Toro looks about as pale as the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, an early fatality in the ongoing White Death.
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At the Oscars, del Toro announced that he was an immigrant and that the purpose of art was to “erase the lines in the sand.” Yet del Toro seems to value being able to secure his daughters north of the line in the sand between the Lovecraftian madness of Mexico and the sane safety of suburban America.
It’s almost as if del Toro finding refuge north of the border...is what Trump meant by implying that our immigration system should be reformed so that Mexico is sending their best.