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Our review of The Whale: Monster Without Company

2023-03-07T15:13:09.413Z


REVIEW - Brendan Fraser ranks among the Oscar favorites for his masterful portrayal of an obese recluse at home. A tragedy of overweight and guilt.


It's a monster.

In close-up, it takes up the entire screen.

It is however difficult to recognize it: it is about Brendan Fraser.

Equipped with prostheses, the hero of

The Mummy

looks like he weighs two hundred kilos.

Charlie can't leave his house.

He lives on his sofa, breathes with difficulty, stuffs himself with pizzas that he drowns in mayonnaise, makes himself sandwiches as high as skyscrapers.

The way to stop it?

He has blood pressure, suffers from heart failure and obviously does not have health insurance.

It's not his habit of getting excited over online porn that will fix things.

An XXL wheelchair allows him to move around in this greyish apartment whose smell of sweat and mustiness can be guessed.

Read alsoTrailer: the incredible metamorphosis of Brendan Fraser, morbidly obese in The Whale by Darren Aronofsky

This professor of letters gives lessons by zoom: he has the prudence to cut the camera which would reveal his extraordinary physique to his students.

Getting up is a feat.

Despite the walker, walking one meter is like a marathon.

His t-shirt is permanently soaked…

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Source: lefigaro

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