The Whale’s Fat Politics
Trauma is Not a Spectacle To Teach Sympathy
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3 min readDec 14, 2022
Newsweek quotes director Darren Aronofsky as saying, “the film is about bringing empathy to characters that you don’t expect to feel for.”
Therein lies the problem.
Aronofsky created this film under the assumption that feeling empathy for fat people is not something that comes easily to “you.” You…
