Darren Aronofsky’s 2022 film, “The Whale,” is an exercise in discomfort. Audiences are spurred to shift in their seats as they watch the protagonist of undeniable size played by the almost universally beloved Brendan Fraser struggle to help himself time and again.
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The hype out of Venice, where "The Whale" made its world-premiere back in early September, was all about the lead performance of Brendan Fraser (where he was regaled with a six-minute standing ovation), and that is absolutely on-point. Playing Charlie, a 600-pound online English teacher in Darren Aronofsky s melodrama, set entirely within a dumpy Idaho apartment, he is the anchor, so to speak, of the film s emotional core.
THE WHALE. It is an easy, reductive, even dismissive temptation to qualify Darren Aronofsky's work as "difficult" or "challenging." Ambitious? Polarizing? Indubitably. But in referring.