suicunesrider:

georgiesyellowcoat:

It’s important that The Shape of Water won because its lead character is a disabled woman who is sexual without being sexualised (and the fetishization of whom is part of the main bad guy’s character, whose behaviour we’re supposed to find very uncomfortable and creepy) and who gives one of the most emotional movie dialogues pretty much ever without ever verbally saying a word, who gets a happy ending and whose best friends are a black woman and a gay man, neither of whom are stereotyped.

It deserved the Oscar too because the actual monster of the movie is not the fish man but the cishet sexist white man with a gun.

Those aren’t the only things it deserved to win for but yeah, they are why I love it so much.

Make jokes all you want but if we got more protagonists like Elisa and more villains who were treated like Strickland, we would have better movies and quite frankly, it deserved to win more than it did.

Guillermo always was on a roll and he still is