The Whale is a dramatic, sincere, overwhelming film that describes the weight of life, suffering and disappointment. It is not only an easy game of words, the burden of existence is an essential part of the film. The physical weight of the protagonist is a metaphor for human suffering in the face of the difficulties of life. The film has been at the cinema since February 23 and has won the Oscar as best actor (deserved) for Brendan Fraser.
The Whale la recensione
Directed by Darren Aronofsky The Whale is the adaptation of the 2012 play by Samuel D. Hunter who also wrote the film. The whale of the title is not the protagonist, a professor of literature of 250 kilos, forced into the house by his obesity, but Moby Dick protagonist of a tesina that Charlie uses to calm down, his proverbial blanket of Linus. Charile, recounts in the film, has always been overweight, let’s say that he never had those bodies that the American college iconography turned into “normal” forcing everyone to deal with their own limitations. She’s had a wife and she has a daughter she hasn’t seen in a long time since she fell in love with a guy.
When he commits suicide, the food becomes his only refuge and begins to get fat by jeopardizing his own life. In the claustrophobic reclusion of his house, the existences of other characters such as Liz, the nurse friend who tries to help him, Thomas, a boy who preaches leads to door for one of the many churches that populate the USA. When he realizes that his life is about to end, Charlie decides to retaliate his daughter Ellie (a very good Sadie Sink) raised with anger to this absent father.
The Whale is a deep immersion in human pain. In those hidden folds of our lives, which emerge every time we stop to reflect. Charlie’s suffering is our pain in all the delusions we have experienced, against the troubles we have suffered. Through the redemption path of Charlie, the other characters that revolve around him, will find a glimmer of hope from pain.
L’assurda polemica su Brendan Fraser
Americans have the politically correct obsession. It’s clear. Coming to polemize on the choice of the protagonist Brendan Fraser, which offers an interpretation from Oscar, only because it is not really obese, it is almost crazy. Unless you risk the life of an obese actor by getting him further fattened, anyone should wear a prosthetic to become Charlie. The description of his obesity is sincere, direct, without hiding behind manierisms. The Whale shows the suffering of an obese man, arrived at his limit. He does it without ever pulling back. It should be a good thing, but in the American plague, it almost seems a defect.
Il cast di The Whale
In addition to Brendan Fraser as the protagonist, in the cast of The Whale we find:
Sadie Sink: Ellie
Hong Chau: Liz
Ty Simpkins: Thomas
Samantha Morton: Mary
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