'The Whale' Is a Cruel Exploitation of Obesity Saved by Brendan Fraser’s Performance

Dec 9 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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Several times throughout The Whale, star Brendan Fraser repeats the same credo. “People are amazing,” his character, Charlie, says in various iterations, sometimes through tears and sometimes with a remarkably cheerful disposition. We’re supposed to look on as audiences, wondering just how it is that Charlie—a man who is severely obese and confined to his apartment—is able to maintain this belief, when his own life has shown him the opposite time and time...

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