I didn’t see all the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture but I can’t disagree with their choice of this movie as the winner.

At the beginning I wasn’t sure I was going to like it. Parts of it are rather violent, some parts are comedic, and at times it seemed like a fantasy (which was to be expected as we were dealing with a human-like creature who lived in the ocean). I loved the music in it and the poem at the end of the film described the story perfectly.