The Whale's Point of View
The Oscar-nominated film is not just cruelly fatphobic; it is irredeemably juvenile
It’s Oscar night tonight, and Brendan Fraser is up for best actor for his role in the mind-numbingly terrible, unforgivably harmful film, The Whale—of which Lindy West has written the definitive takedown; see also her genius longer commentary. (I hope to heaven he doesn’t win. Otherwise, I wish the man well, and simply hope he comes to reconsider his ch…
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