Brendan Fraser Is Moving in Dreary Drama 'The Whale'

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Review: Brendan Fraser gives a mournful, moving performance in the excessively dreary 'The Whale'

plays Charlie, a man who has given up on life, which in turn affects how and what he eats. He gets takeout pizza every night, and finds solace in big, messy sandwiches and buckets of fried chicken. He has drawers full of candy bars that he dips into while he’s grading papers—he’s a writing instructor who teaches exclusively online, with his camera off so his students can’t see him.

was to some a tortured, pointless spectacle, to others a cautionary tale about the potential cruelty of the creative impulse. His 2010 nutso-ballerina sagawas either a work of spangled dorkiness that was impossible to take seriously, or a cautionary tale about the potential cruelty of the creative impulse. Are you seeing a pattern here?at least, is a different kind of film for Aronofsky, who has managed to pry the camera’s gaze away from his own navel.

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