The Shape of Water is a 2017 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro. I think the story itself is actually relatively simple. It is about two incomplete people who finally found their integrity after meeting each other. But the meaning behind the story is very profound. The meaning of this movie is actually very consistent with a concept we had learned in this class, one and the other. In the movie, it seems that everyone is more or less incomplete. But only a few lucky people can find their missing part. Almost all characters in the movie are marginalized people. All people are incomplete. In other words, these people can all be seen as the others. Elisa is a dumb woman without father and mother. She doesn’t even have a bed. She sleeps on the sofa all the time. Communication with others requires translation. Giles, her best friend and neighbor, is a lesbian and unemployed. Elisa’s lover is a fish man, not even a human. Zelda, a colleague and friend at work, is a black woman, black people in the United States of that era were still oppressed everywhere. Of course, the most exciting part of this movie is the love between Elisa and fish man. There is a dialogue, Eliza pours out her feelings about the fish man to her friend Giles in sign language. She “said”: “He sees me for what I am, as I am.” What a wonderful answer, it is very moving. What he sees is herself, what does Elisa feel? From the perspective of love, she would feel she was his only one. From the psychological level, she realized the sense of identity. They are all others of this society. They are all lonely. The loneliness and helplessness of the fish man is even greater than Elisa. With a sense of psychological identity, at the emotional level, there is no distinction between species. So there is the beautiful scene of them combining with each other in the movie.