<셰이프 오브 워터: 사랑의 모양>, 사랑의 본질에 관한 동화

셰이프 오브 워터: 사랑의 모양
The Shape of Water (2017)

 

Writers:  Guillermo del Toro (screenplay by), Vanessa Taylor (screenplay by) 

Stars:  Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon

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If I spoke about it - if I did - what would I tell you? I wonder.
Would I tell you about the time?
It happened a long time ago, it seems. In the last days of a fair prince's reign.
Or would I tell you about the place?
A small city near the coast, but far from everything else. Or, I don't know...
Would I tell you about her? The princess without voice.
Or perhaps I would just warn you, about the truth of these facts.
And the tale of love and loss.
And the monster, who tried to destroy it all.

 

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?

 

 

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me...
He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete.
He sees me, for what I - am, as I am.
He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day.

 

 

Now, I can either save him, or let him die. We can do nothing! I'm sorry!
But this, this, this is just - Oh God, it's not even human.
God! If we do nothing, neither are we.

 

 

Have you always been alone? Did you ever have someone?
Do you know what happened to you, do you? Because I don't.
I don't know what happened to me. I don't know!
I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes.
In this old man's face.
You know sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life.
Maybe we're both just relics.

 

Fuck. You ARE a god.

 

 

 

If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after?
I believe they did.
That they were in love? That they remained in love?
I'm sure that's true.
But when I think of her - of Elisa - the only thing that comes to mind is a poem,
whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago:
"Unable to perceive the shape of You,
I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere."

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정해진 형태와 형식, 경계와 한계, 주변과 중심이 없이 투명하고 순수하며 무한한 것.
없이는 살 수 없는 모든 생명의 근원, '사랑'.

세상 모든 사랑의 본질을 담아낸 성숙한 동화.

서로를 있는 그대로 받아들이는 사랑 안에서 불완전은 더이상 불완전이 아니므로 그 누구도 물거품이 될 필요가 없다.

물 속으로 멀어져가는 두 사람의 뒷모습이 못내 지워지지 않아 한참 마음이 일렁거렸다.
초록빛 수채화에 번진 빨간 물감처럼.