Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
For a film about women talking, this one has very little to say.
If there's anything morbid about this film it is not the protagonist's obesity, but Aronofsky's fetishisation of the fat body. Deprived of any subtlety or nuance, the director makes sure Charlie is depicted as a disgusting piggish monster, horrendous on the outside, but beautiful on the inside. This shit is nothing but a worsened rendition of "Precious" with a particularly corny tear-jerking moment at the end that tries to elicit some cathartic tears, but ultimately feels like just another pedestrian Hallmark movie. Fraser's delivered a very good performance, though.