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Unnatural reactions

posted 4 years ago by CupidDeLocke (274)
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-When Zelda notices Elisa’s constant smiling, she figures it’s because she’s in love or got laid. What’s really weird is that she assumes the lover is the fish mutant, and doesn’t react in disgust when finding out Elisa had sex with him. Is this set in an alternate universe where beastiality is normal?

-What makes the inter-species fling even more disturbing is the fact that fish man killed Elisa’s cat like a wild animal. She and her roommate reacted pretty cavalierly to this horrible incident.

These things along with the one-note characters made this movie subpar. I would say I can’t believe this won best picture...but I can because the Oscars have been a joke for some time now.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12309) 4 years ago

You can't blame Zelda for being curious, and having been experienced herself, she could tell by the look on Eliza's face that she'd had a wonderful time in bed with someone. It is a bit of an odd reaction, but after the things Zelda and Eliza had both seen at that lab, they weren't as creeped out by strange things as some people would be. Plus, Zelda had helped Eliza in getting the Amphibious Man out. She knew Eliza had no real love life, due to the fact that people discriminated her for being a mute woman in a lowly blue-collar job. So it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together.

That is a bit odd, that Eliza and her friend could be so forgiving towards the Amphibious Man killing one of the cats. I mean, the artist guy didn't have any friends besides Eliza and the cats, and having a weird fish man just killing one out of the blue would seriously upset any normal pet owner. I've seen cat owners be very loving towards their cats, and it would have made more sense for the roommate to be crying over his lost cat, though he was kind of distracted by the scratch the fish guy gave him.

After what happened at the end, it's actually not surprising Eliza would have gone for him. She turned out to be some kind of "mermaid" herself. It was only natural she'd fall for a guy who was like that too.