Tenderness Is the Secret Sauce – by Gary Smolker

“The Shape of Water”

I love the theme of the movie “The Shape of Water”, tenderness.

It is a great movie about convictions.

In this movie people with strong convictions go where their convictions take them.

On top of that, “Shape of Water ” is a life affirming deep love story about the preciousness of life and love.

The love story at the heart of this movie develops slowly then flows smoothly from scene to scene, keeps the viewer in suspense and keeps viewer’s attention at all times.

This film is a cinematically perfect presentation of the actions of a variety of characters telling a story seamlessly through their actions and interactions –  whoever wrote the script is a genius, whoever made this movie is also a genius (probably the director) because the actions of a variety of characters, each one of whom is a well defined character type, are weaved together flawlessly.

In “The Shape of Water” the viewer is shown what love is and how love is (and can be) expressed and felt in real life situations and conditions which sometimes are desperate, painful, challenging, and often awkward.

Throughout the movie, each character remains focused – doing what he or she believes is the right thing to do – while beset by extreme problems which seem unsolvable.

This is a well made movie and an entertaining movie.  It oozes with greatness.  It is an example of what a great movie is.

I identified with each of the characters in the movie and I always wanted to know what they were going to do next.

While watching this movie, I was thrilled by how the people/characters in the movie time after time rose to deal with the situations in which they found themselves.

Summary

This movie is a film that tells a story about passionately motivated conscientious people who interact with each other, in one life and/or death adventure after another, who experience – in their own minds – the kind of happiness that comes from doing what they are convinced they should do.

The screenwriter, the actors and actresses, the director and the producer of this movie have shared their enormous talent with the world by their joint efforts making this movie.

Good Friends

I saw “The Shape of Water” with good company.

My Friend Bob

I saw this movie with my good friend Bob, in the media center at my friend Bob’s house.

Bob is an open-minded critical-thinking conscientious extroverted agreeable individual, who is not in the least bit neurotic, who seems to always have an intuitive knowledge of what the right next step is.

Below is a picture of my friend Bob with SiSi.

Aren’t the two of them a perfect picture of contentment?

Instagram Post

I predict members of the cast, the screenwriter, the director, and the producer of “The Shape of Water” will be nominated for an Academy Award.

Immediately after watching “The Shape of Water”  I posted a movie review on Instagram @garyspassion.

Below is a copy what I wrote in my movie review of “The Shape of Water” on Instagram @garyspassion:

“I saw ‘The Shape of Water’ tonight in my friend’s Bob’s Media Room. ‘The Shape of Water’ is a love story about TENDERNESS.  A man and a woman in each interaction treat each other tenderly.  This leads to them becoming addicted to each other, fully protective of one another, and loyal to each other.  It is a beautiful movie. #Gary #Smolker #MovieAddict “BookAddict “AdrenalineJunkie, #Adventurer #Traveler #Technocrat #poet #Warrior-distrupter #financier #RiskTaker. ADVICE: Be true to yourself: Build the kind of world you want to inhabit, do what you love being, and be what you love doing.#Passion is everything.  Photo of my friend Bob sharing tenderness and contentment with SISI – a Parisian world-wise woman of the world.”

In my Instagram post I included a copy of the photograph above, of Bob and SiSi.

I Am A Movie Addict, A Book Addict and A Story Teller

I am a movie addict.

Tonight I am going to a private screening of “The Darkest Hour” at Bob’s home.

I am also a book addict.  At all times I am reading four or five books at a time.

Currently I am reading:

1. “Tribe of Mentors” by Timothy Ferris
2. “An Appetite for Wonder” by Richard Dawkins
3. “Merchant Soldier Sage” by David Priestland
4. “S*P*Q*R” by Mary Beard, and
5. “Yes Please” by Amy Poehler

I am also a writer and a story teller.

At the moment I am writing an Appellant’s Opening Brief which is due on January 25, 2018.

I wrote this movie review on an hour break from writing that Appellant’s Opening Brief.

The complaint in that case was filed in 1997.

MY THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In order to ‘have’ you must ‘do’, and in order to ‘do’ you must ‘be.’

Each of the characters in “The Shape of Water” knew who they were, knew what they must do in order to get what they wanted, and did it.

Copyright © 2018 by Gary Smolker, All Rights Reserved

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