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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
(Spoilers, duh)
The Whale portrays the final days of Charlie, a morbidly obese English teacher who, consumed by regret and addiction, makes a desperate effort to reconcile with his estranged daughter, Ellie. Charlie’s life is a story of regret, the inability to reconcile with the past, and the devastating effects of letting problems go beyond repair.
Assisted by his friend and nurse Liz, Charlie is contradictingly urged to go to a hospital while being enabled with junk food. Liz’s care…