🏐 Movie Name – The Whale
🏐 Year – 2023
🏐 Country – USA
🏐 Genre – American psychological drama
🏐 Certificate – U/A
🏐 Directed by Darren Aronofsky
🏐 Written by Samuel D. Hunter
🏐 Based on The Whale
by Samuel D. Hunter
🏐 Produced by
Jeremy Dawson
Ari Handel
Darren Aronofsky
🏐 Starring
Brendan Fraser
Sadie Sink
Hong Chau
Ty Simpkins
Samantha Morton
🏐 Cinematography Matthew Libatique
🏐 Edited by Andrew Weisblum
🏐 Music by Rob Simonsen
🏐 Production
company
Protozoa Pictures
🏐 Distributed by A24
🏐 Storyline
Charlie, a morbidly obese and reclusive English instructor, teaches online writing courses but keeps his webcam off, to hide his physical appearance. His nurse and only friend Liz urges him to visit a hospital for severe risk of congestive heart failure, but Charlie insists he cannot afford medical care.Charlie is also visited by Thomas, a missionary for the New Life Church who wants him to be saved. He frequently orders pizza, following an established routine with delivery driver Dan, who drops off the pizza and collects payment from the mailbox without them ever interacting face-to-face.Charlie hopes to reconnect with Ellie, his estranged teenage daughter whom he has not seen in eight years. He offers her the $120,000 in his bank account if she spends time with him without her mother’s knowledge. Ellie relents when he agrees to help rewrite a school essay, though he also would like her to write in a notebook he gives her.Charlie’s health begins to rapidly decline; Liz brings him a wheelchair so he can remain mobile. Liz is disgruntled by Thomas’ visits and chastises him. She reveals she is the adopted daughter of New Life’s head pastor and that Alan, Charlie’s deceased boyfriend whose death from suicide caused Charlie to start uncontrollably binge-eating, was her brother. Despite Liz’s objections, Thomas still believes his mission is to help Charlie.Ellie places crushed Ambien into Charlie’s food. After he falls asleep, Thomas arrives and she questions him while they both smoke marijuana. Thomas admits he stole his youth group’s money and ran away from home because he felt unfulfilled. Ellie secretly records their conversation. Out of concern, Liz brings Mary, Charlie’s ex-wife and Ellie’s mother, to visit.A heated exchange occurs in which Charlie reveals the amount in his bank account that he planned to leave Ellie, causing Liz to storm out over being lied to about why he avoided medical treatment. Alone, Mary and Charlie argue about the breakdown of their marriage and their failures as parents. It is revealed that Charlie abandoned Mary and Ellie to be with Alan, which resulted in a divorce and his estrangement from Ellie. As Mary leaves, Charlie admits he is hoping Ellie will be the confirmation he needs that he did “one thing right with his life”. Later that night, during a routine pizza delivery, delivery driver Dan sees Charlie for the first time after waiting for Charlie to go outside to get a glimpse. In shock, he runs off without saying a word. As a result, Charlie has a severe binge-eating episode during which he sends a profanity-laden email to his students, telling them to disregard the classwork and just write back “something honest”.Thomas visits Charlie one last time to inform him that he is moving back home after Ellie sent his confession to his former youth group and family. They have forgiven him and welcome him home. He attempts to preach to Charlie, but Charlie chastises Thomas when he attributes Alan’s death to him being a homosexual.Charlie reveals during his next class that he is being replaced due to the email he sent, and he reads some of the students’ submissions. To reciprocate their honesty, he switches on his webcam for the first time, and the students react with shock; he calmly proclaims the only thing that matters is the honest things his students had written. Charlie then abruptly ends the class by tossing his laptop against the fridge.Liz returns and comforts Charlie as his health worsens. Ellie arrives to furiously confront him over an essay he rewrote for her; Charlie replaced it with a critical essay of Moby-Dick she wrote in eighth grade, as he considered it the most honest essay he has ever read. Ellie initially rebukes him as he attempts to reconcile one final time, though she reads the essay aloud at Charlie’s insistence.Charlie stands up and walks toward her without assistance, which he had tried but failed to do during Ellie’s first visit. As Ellie finishes reading, they both smile at each other, and Charlie begins to float as he is engulfed in a bright white light.
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