>>99778354I'm not good at talking about why things are shit but the premise to that movie is that Evil White Men find this fish creature in South America while exterminating aboriginals and instead of studying it they torture and beat it up and finally decide to vivisect it because that's obviously how you study a creature that is unique in the world. All of this will help America win the space race somewhat because something something respiratory system. Okay.
Every single villain is the most caricatured Evil White Man imaginable, so much that it comes off as satirical except the movie is absolutely straight faced throughout.
We are dealing so far with
- Colonialism
- Vivisection
- Evil Military Agendas
- Xenophobia
The protagonist is a mute whose best friends are an old gay artist and a fat black woman. They are discriminated throughout the whole movie because hey, it's the 50s and we are totally not trying to check all the boxes for approval. Evil White men quickly check the list further with
- Misogyny
- Homophobia
- Ableism
- Racism
By abusing and mistreating these poor people. Mute girl meets and for some reason falls in love with the fish in the tank who doesn't display any particularly human behavior. She manages to sneak a huge ass phonograph in a secret services facility and play music loudly several times without getting caught.
However, this ragtag band of misfits manages to sneak the creature away and put it in a bathtub. They have to add salt to the water because as we all know, the Amazon river is saltwater. The level of interaction between the woman and the fish man never goes further than what you can achieve with your average gorilla. No further effort is made to humanize what is in all regards an animal, who also eats the family cat and nobody bats an eyelash. On the contrary, mute woman must have found this arousing because she decides so have sex with this animal. She decides for some reason to clog the door and fill the room with water--
