Cinematic Point Of View

There’s a good reason that Alexandre Desplat won an Academy Award for the soundtrack to Guillermo del Toro‘s The Shape of Water. I watched the movie for the first time last week and was blown away. Not sure why I slept on it for so long.

The music reminds of me of how it felt to jump into the pool as a kid and just drift around looking up at the surface. Dreamy and melancholic. Like you’ve stepped outside of the world for just a minute and look back at a place that feels more like a dream than reality.

Like the movie, it’s magical and romantic.