>A24’s The Whale drops all of Darren Aronofsky’s worst tendencies into a fat suit. It’s an exercise in abjection in the mode of Aronofsky’s torturous Requiem for a Dream, but it’s focused on an even more vulnerable target than Requiem’s addicts.
>Aronofsky turns up the foley audio whenever Charlie is eating, to emphasize the wet sound of lips smacking together. He plays ominous music under these sequences, so we know Charlie’s doing something very bad indeed. Fraser’s neck and upper lip are perpetually beaded with sweat, and his T-shirt is dirty and covered in crumbs. At one point, he takes off his shirt and slowly makes his way to his bed, sagging rolls of prosthetic fat dangling off his body as he slouches toward the camera like the rough beast he is.
>The story in The Whale’s first half is a gauntlet of humiliation, beginning as an evangelical missionary named Thomas (Ty Simpkins) walks in on Charlie as he’s having a heart attack, gay porn still playing on his laptop from a pathetic attempt at masturbation. Charlie’s nurse and only friend, Liz (Hong Chau), is mostly kind to him, although she enables him with meatball subs and buckets of fried chicken.
>Charlie’s 17-year-old daughter Ellie (Sadie Sink) openly despises him, and says the most vicious things she can think of to punish Charlie for leaving her and her mom, Mary (Samantha Morton), when Ellie was 8.
>There is a plot point where Charlie refuses to go to the hospital, even though his blood pressure is dangerously high and he’s showing symptoms of congestive heart failure. At first, he lies to Liz and says he doesn’t have the money to pay the massive medical bills he’d rack up as an uninsured patient. Then it emerges that Charlie has more than $100,000 tucked away in savings.
>The Whale understands this as a combination of selflessness — he’s hoping to give that money to Ellie after he dies — and suicidality.
The Whale being reviewed as too depressing and harmful for fat people
>To be fair, some people enjoy this kind of miserabilism. But these viewers are also warned that not only is this film difficult to endure and likely to be actively harmful to some audiences, it’s also a self-serving reinforcement of the status quo.
>The movie thinks it’s saying, “You don’t understand; he’s fat because he’s suffering.” But it ends up saying, “You don’t understand; we have to be cruel to fat people, because we are suffering.”
>wahhhhh stop being fatphobic
burgers lol
no sympathy for fat fucks
the movie that made america kill itself
i was fat for a long time. i only lost weight when my friends started making fun of how fat i was.
Oh...
Nah, it's not even Burgers in general. It's a minor subset. Most burgers applaud fat'phobia'.
>Katie Rife
oh nonononono
Kinda cute
Is being morbidly obese not miserable and unhealthy? Should it not be shown as such?
I was fat for quite a bit as well. Pretty much ever since college. It was actually /fph/ that motivated me to get Any Forums, and I haven't looked back since.
Femcel tier.
I didn't know Hong Chau was in this. I liked her in that movie she made with Sarah Gadon.
rife with something
Did this woman literally just say that being fat is harder to overcome than a heroin addiction?
this is literally nazi and ableist due to the beauty standards set by the white patriarchy
"No, you make ME a sandwich!"
>he doesn’t know
This is why fat shaming should be a standard part of society
far people should be put into camps so they can work it off
What about near people?
or wherever you are people?
Does anyone know what year that photo originates from? Earliest time you remember seeing it?
As a fatty who ended up in the hospital almost dying I wish people hard been harder on me and my over eating.
she looks like my 60 year old aunt
Some posters should be required to masturbate to completion before they post on the blue boards.
But if you had died you never would've had to deal with people trying to dictate your business to you again.
Austin Powers quote
I'd rather be alive and eat carrots every day.