Mainstream critics are furious that a director would dare to portray obesity as a negative.
They’ll never come out and say that explicitly. Instead, their reviews of “The Whale” starring Brendan Fraser are full of evasive criticism, claiming director Darren Aronofsky’s passion project is a “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opinion/the-whale-film.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cruel spectacle</a>” and that it helps to “reinforce the dehumanizing ways in which many people understand fatness.”

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