I don't love monsters. I hate gore. I despise Halloween and zombies. I miss the simpler Halloween of my youth, full of candy and ghosts, but now Halloween is so full of characters of the graphic horror films and walking dead that I literally feel ill about how the macabre is celebrated. So I was surprised how much I liked Guillermo del Toro's point of view of a life dedicated to creating monsters. He was being honored for his movie The Shape of Water, and he convinced me to love his monster. I do like making silly monsters like Monsters Inc. in colour and string.
As he received his first Golden Globe, for 25 year of creative work, and fending off the music with the most charm imaginable, he said,
" Monsters [] are the patron saints of our blissful imperfection and they allow and embody the possibility of failure and life."
Maybe it's time to be a little more accepting of the bizarre and the strange. But I think the gore is enough in real life. I don't need any more than that, and continue to work towards minimizing that.
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