Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film hurt me. And that’s a good thing. I was expecting to watch an ultimately uplifting story about overcoming obesity and a healed father-daughter relationship, but instead had a flaw-revealing mirror held directly in front of my face for the movie’s entirety. I saw a story of an obliviously selfish, but well-intentioned character, who unintentionally hurts most everyone around him; yet because of his kind nature, you can only have compassion for the “big dumb animal”. Far from a…