Critics Blubber Over ‘The Whale’ Rejecting Narrative That Obesity Is Healthy And Normal

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 “cruel spectacle” and that it helps to “reinforce the dehumanizing ways in which many people understand fatness.”