Silent as the grave

Mute Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) has her routines; in the morning she wakes up, takes a bath, masturbates and boils eggs for herself and her gay neighbour (Richard Jenkins) and goes to work as a janitor in a top secret research facility. That is until she meets some kind of swamp creature inside the facility and they connect to the degree that she wants to kidnap it from future horrors that lay ahead. I liked this, Guillermo del Toro knows his business and the actors did their part, but even if The Shape of Water was exciting and entertaining, it was a bit silly. And had the genders been reversed, had there been a male human being fucking a female fishlike animal, it would have raised a few million eyebrows and the movie had never been released.