I just watched "The Shape of Water" for the first time.

[Jeebo]

Er, I mean, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon." Wait, I mean "Free Willy." No, I had it right the first time, it's "The Shape of Water." It's a pretty good movie, but Best Picture? No way. Some of the situations and premises are just simply preposterous. Could you actually fill up an entire upstairs bathroom with water? And in the closing scene, is it the suggestion that the scars on her neck are going to metamorphose into gills?

But the biggest problem I have with the film is the romance between the mute woman and the amphibian-man. I'm not a prude by any means, but I do feel profoundly uncomfortable about interspecies sex, and about watching it play out on the silver screen.

I have lots of time for watching movies -- I suppose we all do -- and I'm trying to watch the very few Best Picture winners I haven't seen yet.

-- Ron