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good are you getting me into the notes thing I see the appeal short Samari taking place Cold War era in the States everybody's afraid everybody's afraid starts off with the main character Eliza is a cleaner a helper at this kind of government facility one day research facility one day they bring in an asset they find out it's a fish man this asset right it has a lot of capabilities biologically like he's able to breathe and different yeah both land and water land and water just like he's very malleable biologically and this is why he's an asset so he's in the research facility to be studied and the whole point is to see whether or not they can use his biological makeup and translate it to weapons of destructions Eliza the main character she goes back home every day she lives above some movie theater with her friends Giles and they're both kind of outcasts he's gay in a period that isn't so into that kind of thing yeah and she is mute so they both are kind of outcasts together along with the other friend of her Zelda was also a janitor and she is of a certain skin tone right that's how she's an outcast Eliza one day discovers the fish man grows a bond she feels this attachment and this connection to the fish man she's never had with anyone else who just always overlooked her and they attempt to break the fish man out of the facility after she finds out that they're the plan is to kill the fish man so the person who's overseeing this whole operation is stripland the guy who's in charge of the whole operation he's the one who calls the fish man the asset he's really mean to the fish man he's really like sexist classist racist all the he is that he's a cruel man he's a cruel man who has his own issues and his own personal challenges but yeah so these are the main factors in the movie stripland he's interrogating everyone to find out the location of the fish man after the fish man has been broken out of the facility looks bad on stripland and his higher up is being hired on him yeah that's how it happens you just throw the crap down the ladder so he's trying to figure out any leads and he brings the help in Eliza and Zelda and basically it doesn't really get anything they're not really too into helping him because he's never been nice to them it's just like for me kind of reminded me of a lot of people especially people in power although that's the interesting thing is he's in a position of power over them but not when it comes to his higher ups but that's where you get this effect that stratification has on people where people want to punch down because they're getting punched down themselves and they also don't appreciate the kind of symbiotic relationship that everyone has in a business or family or whatever but everyone relies on each other without the help within one day people will be walking around and there'll be **** everywhere every day or for whatever the reason they see people as the other in different positions in the job forgets that they all rely on each other a lot for it to function from the very beginning he assumes the sense of superiority and he has this idea that oh of course I mean if you're a janitor you're a mute, you're black he says something I don't remember what word he uses but he's like do you understand what that word is do you understand what that means just assuming that these people are probably not educated and then I remember he talks about I know that this feature looks interesting in the image of God talking about you know human beings are more superior he's like God is something like God kind of looks like us you know me you know you maybe a little bit more like me you know referring to Zeldan at this point you may think that thing looks human stands on two legs right but we're created in the Lord's image you don't think that's what the Lord looks like do you I wouldn't know sir what the Lord looks like well human Zeldan he looks like a human like me or even you maybe a little more like me I guess he thinks that well you know if you're a minority then there are just certain things that you don't have access to intellectually or otherwise anything that's respectable you don't really have access to he just kind of assumes that automatically but he's also a very interesting character because he's a very parody of American exceptionalism when you think about it like he has like where he lives perfect house you know who every time he's eating breakfast they'll give him a kiss goodbye and you know the wife just always just kind of doting on him making him honey you must eat this and whatever you know it looks like something you'd watch in a movie like an ad from that time an ad from that time yeah right and then but then when it comes to carnal knowledge time which at first the wife initiates you know like hey honey why don't you go upstairs and get undressed and we think this is interesting maybe they do have a relationship of reciprocity where needs are met and then when it's time to get down and dirty her needs they just completely cast aside what means doesn't even want her to talk just shut up you know it puts his hand over her mouth and he's clearly so unhappy in that marriage in his life and then on top of that his job is very stressful he's obsessed with this idea of what it means he doesn't fail I don't fail you don't fail and even as he acts the way he acts with people it's not really natural it's just the idea of what he thinks someone in a superior position would act to other people he's just as afraid as everybody else which is very interesting trying to compensate other things that came up from me I guess Fishman of course I don't know the relationship between him and Eliza obviously is very interesting very beautiful I think he represents people who are othered and so when Eliza meets him it's not like oh my god I'm witnessing this insanity or nobody else in the world has ever seen a Fishman what? hold the thought on the Fishman back to the Fishman the relationship between Eliza and the Fishman the Fishman represents subaltern she doesn't see him as like a kind of like a circus act type of thing if you see a man with like five heads or something like that it's not that she sees him as familiar she sees herself in this man I think for example minorities like Zelda like Giles and like Eliza they're also close with each other and they get along very easily when you think of Zelda for example where it's mostly white people Eliza can't speak and so they gravitate towards each other and you take care of each other and it's easy to interact with each other because they have this lived experience that is so similar there's this unspoken understanding that you have for this person who may look different to you and whose experience with disenfranchisement is probably different than yours in some way but is similar at the same time and so that's where I feel like when Eliza meets the Fishman it is more just kind of like I see myself in you that's the first thing is the aspect of them falling in love with each other and for her it's two things I think the fact of what she says he sees me as I am and does not see anything that I lack takes me as I am without any kind of expectations I think she obviously living in the world that she lives in as a mute anybody who would look at her in that way and see her beautiful as she is that would be something I think a very meaningful experience for her in a certain comfort that she's never experienced except you as you are when you think about it even things like even your family or your friends there's always a why don't you put your hair up a certain way honey or you know you would look so much cuter if you wore dresses more sweetheart all of these things are saying to you that there's there's something you lack and it gives you the sense that the people that are in your life don't necessarily accept you as you are or love you as you are or even think that anybody could love you as you are these are experiences that all of us you could do this you could do that even to myself don't always accept ourselves as how we are so then it's hard to do that for other people and when you meet someone who has that level of acceptance that kind of like childlike acceptance because when you think about babies or toddlers when they're growing up before they are sullied by the world they see you you show up you're just beautiful as you are they don't need you to put on makeup they don't need you to do anything you're perfect as you are right and so this man that's how in love with someone who has that kind of part you know what I mean forget the exact line but basically Elizo wants to break the fishman out of the center the research place and Giles is like this is too dangerous this is a legal bad bad idea we're gonna get it's not gonna end well it's not even human why would we risk our everything something that's not even we don't even know what it is and then she counters back with being like we do nothing then we also we're not human either what we do when we see injustice there are a lot of things that he says she try and get out of helping Eliza we're all lonely he's lonely I'm lonely too and then he's like well you know I don't have the power you're asking me to do this thing to help you but I'm powerless these things are are very interesting you know what I mean because firstly the fact of recognizing that someone else is as lonely as you are you actually having that understanding because you actually have experienced it so it's not even something that you have to imagine you know what it feels like so why wouldn't it come easily to you to actually help someone in a situation that you know is a painful situation to exist in that's something that's really interesting to me but when he talks about like I'm powerless I guess then that makes sense why he doesn't help even though he empathizes with this guy a lot of us feel that way right like we have this idea well you know I don't have money or I am not influential in some way who am I what resources do I even have to even begin to actually get this guy justice or anyone justice you know the capacity that you don't have but I think a lot of the times whatever vision of helping someone we have is we always I think we have these grand designs in our mind of what helping someone would look like if you don't have the kind of resources that would match this vision that you have of what help would look like then let's look at okay what would 1% of that vision of helping someone look like anybody can help even if it means just raising awareness maybe you don't have the money to fund something or you don't have justice to stop but you do have a voice right you have a voice you can raise awareness to this is happening you can maybe start a go fund me there's always something you can do and I think sometimes we stop taking action because we see as this problem is huge and it would require a huge solution you can just chip away at the solution little by little when is a man done proving himself when is enough enough he failed once only once what does that make him does that make him a failure and done sir proving himself I think Strickland is also a good example he represents kind of the anxiety or the pressure people feel in modern society of needing to be perfect all the time needing to be more productive constantly need to move up needing to there's just that pressure on yourself all the time and I think a lot of people feel that when have I proven myself worthy when can I finally be accepted for who I am or just be accepted for what I've done when am I done when am I done in terms of work when are you ever done that's the whole point of like promotions right you know that there's work you are never really done the way some companies work is that they kind of pick employees against each other so even outside of getting promoted you're always compared to other people you know what I mean whenever someone does something great at work congratulations Tom Tom did ABC and then everybody else kind of feels like oh I nobody at this point I need to get my act together and be the next person that's congratulated in the next meeting how am I going to do that and even that guy who gets congratulated in that meeting he has now set a bar and he can't rest just that accolade he receives in that moment he won't be able to rest he has to maintain that or surpass it and that's life that's how we are wouldn't you be uptight if that's the way that in that kind of setup I mean I saw I certainly am uptight in that kind of world this is the environment in which Strickland works in the environment we all work we all live we're all Strickland yeah we're all Strickland we're a little nicer but yeah we all have those kinds of pressures the world in general because even when he goes to get that car I remember the salesman it's like of course this is what everybody is getting this kind of car and eating this color yeah first he doesn't like that it's a teal color but once he buys it and it's part of his identity then he's defensive of people not knowing that it's teal it's a teal color it's not enough to just get anything that isn't a teal colored Cadillac it's not enough next year when limited edition I don't know a different color orange Cadillacs then his one isn't going to be enough anymore so there's never any rest perhaps I would just the truth of these facts and the tale of love and loss and the monster who tried to destroy it all what does a monster actually look like it reminded me of the Green Mile the Green Mile you have John Coffee's soft gentle soul and then he's perceived as a monster just based on his what he looks like and then the guy who's actually a monster is super tiny and soft looking and weak compared to John Coffee and so in this movie who is the monster is it really the fish man or is it Strickland Strickland but when you look at Strickland and his cookie cutter life you wouldn't think oh no he's just a hard working guy he's just a true blue red-blooded American and that's it who is the monster here that's another thing I think when you're interacting with people remembering those kinds of things currency versus actions actions show the monster just because a person looks appealing to you externally doesn't mean that internally that they would be appealing and assume and talk of that if someone does not look appealing don't assume that it's the same internally it's interesting because like when you're growing up these are all things that you hear your teachers will tell you that don't judge a book by its cover do you know what that means kids and then they'll explain to you then you grow up and we somehow forget these things as we're interacting with people it's just one of those things that are so I don't know why it's so hard to do that I guess people we do get jaded as we're growing and living but this movie I think if you really look beyond it being a romantic fairy tale type of human being and the a fishman it has a lot of those moral undertones there that people can chew on it's more than just like a fish out of water fish back into water lady movie yeah how did that feel like yeah I think that's some stuff that we talked about that we noticed from the shape of water how about you what did you guys think have you seen it let us know what's your thoughts and thoughts in the comments down below that's it though that's it thanks everyone for watching yeah and until next time let's rip bye