One of the most productive videos of 2022 lands on Netflix today, we’re just warning: get your tissue box ready. This is a tear.
The Whale, directed through Darren Aronofsky, is a drama centered on Charlie, a lonely and morbidly obese English instructor touched through Brendan Fraser, who has moved away from the global due to misfortune and guilt for his condition. Living in a small apartment and online workout categories with his camera, Charlie spends his days reconnecting with his estranged teenage daughter, Ellie, played through Sadie Sink who we all know from the hit Netflix show, Stranger Things as Max.
Charlie’s health is deteriorating due to his high-weight habits and eating, and his closest connection to global outings is Liz, played through Hong Chau, a nurse and a friend who cares deeply about him, worries about his refusal to seek a doctor. Meanwhile, Ellie resents Charlie for abandoning her and her mother years ago, but Charlie sees reconnecting with her as a last chance for redemption.
The film only has 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I locate incredibly unexpected given the harrowing functionality (again, I’m baffled through the review scores). However, the audience rates it as “hot checked” with an audience score of 91%//Popcorn Meter. This turns out more in line with the show’s many awards, even though the vital maximum went to Fraser, adding an Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as the top awards for sensible acting at the Critics’ Guild Awards’ Movie Awards and Hollywood Critics Association Awards Awards.
This is the first time the movie will be made on Netflix, so if you’ve been waiting to see it, this bloodless November weekend might be a smart time to get the aforementioned tissue box and get in a position for a clever scream. Black Swan (2010) and The My Mental Mystery Pi (1998), among others.
If you’re something more fun, and a little scarier for this Halloween/Dia de Los Muertos weekend, Jack Blacks has also landed on Netflix. Vintage Brat Pack Film Sixze Cougies is also slipping today.
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