![]() ![]() "A very Catholic notion is the humble force, or the force of humility, that gets revealed as a god-like figure toward the end," he says. (Today he describes himself as "lapsed.") The sea creature, for example, was inspired by both Catholicism and fairy tales. ![]() ![]() Like many of his films, The Shape of Water was also informed by del Toro's Catholic upbringing. And that's why the original title of the screenplay when I wrote it was A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times, because I think that this is a movie that is incredibly pertinent and almost like an antidote to a lot of the cynicism and disconnect that we experience day to day." "You know, the idea of empathy, the idea of how we do need each other to survive. "The movie is about connecting with 'the other,' " he says. Del Toro says he uses Elisa and the creature's connection as a window to how people should communicate with one another. ![]()
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