Joint venture
but not so at all.
‘The Shape of Water’ is a mingled mixture of shapes and
sizes of close ups of faces and of retro objects.
Many objects are seen through a
blue watery camera eye, as well as through another element: the sand; the brown
colour here is contrasted with the movements and fluidity of the watery scenes.
Tilted views of perspectives, through he camera lens, is a
good way to describe this movie.
In terms of the plot, the film
starts with suspended ‘aqua minerale’, and takes us through the world of
fiction -built in the mind and heart of the heroine, who is a kitchen maid and
dreams of romance.
She finds it in the ‘Neptunian’ shape of water of the
creature from the beyond -but not the original creature from the beyond. This guy
is cool finned and not hot tailed!
The movie ends with her saving
him first, and joining him in life and not death, within the deep treasures of
the ocean views.
Fluidity and movement are a prominent part of this detailed
film, both in terms of object scenarios and of background settings. The watery
shapes of people are set against this moving setting of ‘objets d’art’s’’.
The starry stars -and stars of
the screen- are also featured on the ceiling-ed starry 'plafond', in one of the dreamy
scenes. The ball room dancing dream is likened here to the starry bursts featured
in our next view on review…’Reve’ you…
‘The Black Panther’ jumps from scene to scene, and skips
from close ups to crop ins, showing us production genius, artistic animation,
and movements of panther-like speed.
The colours here are also fluid as
well as the movements (like in ‘The Shape of Water’), ranging from starry tones
of flying ships -of futuristic proportions, rather than of retro minutia- in
this case, to blues and browns -like in the above shape of water..and of sand.
Fight scenes in this movie are more ‘Marvel’ machine created,
and less object creative.
We find the panther looking for
origin rather than for love in this film, as opposed to the content in the
first above mentioned movie.
The characters in this one are more numerous, but the plot is
less about the individuals here and more about the politics and the social
groups.
Fighting for power, rather than fighting
for love, is the idea in the black panther’s mind(s)…
We end with this:
If you see both starry movies, please do compare the blues and the
browns: same watery, earthy effects, same quick fluid movements and camera
techniques -more or less, but different objects, and different story lines of
course.
One is about fighting for a special love, the other is about finding
power and glory and the just treasure of the ethnic past.
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of
transformation
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transfiguration
in both
movies
movie land
goers!
