Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Whale’ aims for empathy, but comes up short. rilaws reviews:
is a story of a morbidly obese man, Charlie , living out what might be his last days as his heart falters and his mind is lost to regret.
That doesn’t feel anything like empathy. I trust that that intention was there, on both Aronofsky and Fraser’s parts, but their execution is turgid and ghastly. Nearly every time Charlie goes to take a bite of food, Aronofsky’s cues up’s unrelentingly bombastic score, plaintive and sinister strings indicating that something very, very bad—and scary—is happening. What might have been a somber and carefully considered study of a lonely man grappling with his past becomes a posturing labor.
One is an Evangelical missionary, Thomas , who bursts into Charlie’s world at an inopportune moment: Charlie has just finished masturbating to gay porn, with the video still playing on the laptop when he seizes up with chest pain. Thomas, seeing this heaving totem of misery, wants to save the dying Charlie’s soul, a witless effort toward a man who feels he’s past redemption—spiritually, morally, physically.
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