So I finally saw this movie, and I thought I would be moved at the plight of this incredibly obese man and his sadness and such.
And I did at moments early on - this after getting over the initial surprise of him masturbating to gay porn at the beginning, seemingly by his reaching down to his SIDE. His side......... Then I had to get used to the fact that his fat costume (or CGI, whatever), did not make his body look real. His stomach, and where his belly button would be, was much lower than seemed real, when he got up to walk with his walker.
So he teaches this class to some students from home and is afraid to be seen; well that is something one can feel empathy for, it's very sad to be too ashamed to show yourself to them (and at the end, near the end, when he does, of course there is at least one if not two people, students, amused by it - which is disgusting. But so is this movie.)
His daughter, who has been noted to be a brat, is one, and he keeps saying 'you're amazing' over and over - how is she amazing? She's annoying as hell. She's horrible.
And the guy who is supposed to be from some religious thing called New Life, an organization that believes in the End Times, comes around, but is revealed to not be?
And then there's Liz, who is Charlie's (Fraser's) friend and was his late boyfriend's sister, and she comes around initially to try and get him to go to a hospital, but Charlie refuses; so she keeps coming around until he dies.
Basically I thought this movie would have me completely in tears, or at least move me to that at times. Instead, with Charlie sitting around and eating things like two slices of pizza at once (people with eating problems or eating disorders, call it what you will, they do not eat like this. And he also puts mayonnaise on his pizza?!???). We are told this is a beautiful movie and we should be so moved, yet while this is an extremely sad situation and story, it leaves me feeling both disgusted - sadly partly by Charlie himself, and also by the whole yelling - from the daughter, the ex-wife, Liz, etc - Charlie himself.....this movie is vile.
And he is most sad because his gay lover committed suicide of course.
And at the very end, he walks over, without the help of his walker - this time not crushing an end table - he stands up and she reads her essay about Moby Dick (which we have heard a few times in this movie), and suddenly his feet rise up and he's happy and bathed in white light, and so he's risen and is possibly in Heaven? Though he said he doesn't believe in an afterlife?
This whole movie was vile, just absolutely disgusting, with no redeeming value. If you want to see a movie about someone incredibly obese but with a real character, and real pain, and a really great movie (with no prosthetics or CGI), see What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Also this movie seemed to be much, much longer than it was - watching this movie, it veers between being sad, boring, disgusting and torturous. Mainly torturous. I would recommend this to no one.
This deserved no Oscars, by any means - talk about how movies have fallen over the years - and Aronofsky didn't and doesn't deserve to earn a penny from this absolutely horrendous movie.
And I did at moments early on - this after getting over the initial surprise of him masturbating to gay porn at the beginning, seemingly by his reaching down to his SIDE. His side......... Then I had to get used to the fact that his fat costume (or CGI, whatever), did not make his body look real. His stomach, and where his belly button would be, was much lower than seemed real, when he got up to walk with his walker.
So he teaches this class to some students from home and is afraid to be seen; well that is something one can feel empathy for, it's very sad to be too ashamed to show yourself to them (and at the end, near the end, when he does, of course there is at least one if not two people, students, amused by it - which is disgusting. But so is this movie.)
His daughter, who has been noted to be a brat, is one, and he keeps saying 'you're amazing' over and over - how is she amazing? She's annoying as hell. She's horrible.
And the guy who is supposed to be from some religious thing called New Life, an organization that believes in the End Times, comes around, but is revealed to not be?
And then there's Liz, who is Charlie's (Fraser's) friend and was his late boyfriend's sister, and she comes around initially to try and get him to go to a hospital, but Charlie refuses; so she keeps coming around until he dies.
Basically I thought this movie would have me completely in tears, or at least move me to that at times. Instead, with Charlie sitting around and eating things like two slices of pizza at once (people with eating problems or eating disorders, call it what you will, they do not eat like this. And he also puts mayonnaise on his pizza?!???). We are told this is a beautiful movie and we should be so moved, yet while this is an extremely sad situation and story, it leaves me feeling both disgusted - sadly partly by Charlie himself, and also by the whole yelling - from the daughter, the ex-wife, Liz, etc - Charlie himself.....this movie is vile.
And he is most sad because his gay lover committed suicide of course.
And at the very end, he walks over, without the help of his walker - this time not crushing an end table - he stands up and she reads her essay about Moby Dick (which we have heard a few times in this movie), and suddenly his feet rise up and he's happy and bathed in white light, and so he's risen and is possibly in Heaven? Though he said he doesn't believe in an afterlife?
This whole movie was vile, just absolutely disgusting, with no redeeming value. If you want to see a movie about someone incredibly obese but with a real character, and real pain, and a really great movie (with no prosthetics or CGI), see What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Also this movie seemed to be much, much longer than it was - watching this movie, it veers between being sad, boring, disgusting and torturous. Mainly torturous. I would recommend this to no one.
This deserved no Oscars, by any means - talk about how movies have fallen over the years - and Aronofsky didn't and doesn't deserve to earn a penny from this absolutely horrendous movie.