Sexual experience with the monster in modern fairy tale The Shape of Water carried out by Guillermo del Toro
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The myth of love between the monstrosity and the human being has been a constant feature in literary creations of all times from antique times. This note proposes a brief comparative analysis of sexual experience of lovers in the film The Shape of Water (2017), by Guillermo del Toro (México, 1964), with regard to previous narratives, but also by deepening in other aspects such as the faces of the monster in the movie and its proximity with fairy tales formula.
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