From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You know, Guillermo Dutero set across me so many times.

He could probably do this by himself, but he's stuck with me anyway.

I'm here.

He's here.

His new film is also here,

the shape of water.

First of all, it's always a pleasure to have you here.

Thank you so much.

Always happy, man.

Always happy in general.

Don't blame that on me.

You could tell the audience what the movie's about.

Oh, my God. Well, this is, I think the most coherent thing I can say is the subtitle I had on the

Scrimplay, which is a fairy tale for troubled times, you know.

And what it is is a journey through a sci-fi staple of an amphibian man in a super secret government facility,

you know, it's been done.

It exists in the ether, you know, but we don't come in through the front door.

We come in through the service door into the story with a mute cleaning lady that takes

the night shift and discovers this creature.

And little by little, she starts having her lunch breaks in silence

with this creature in the lab, and a bond is formed, and love story surges.

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