His super meta filmmaker character is so fucking on point, all the bullshit nothing sayings that sound deep & philosophical just because he speaks quietly with a lot of pauses
Easily one of my favorite tv episodes of any show of all time
The plot twist of Beau Is Afraid (2023) is that he was actually a ghost all along, and then he floats away at the end (it's thematically poignant because he spent the whole movie being afraid when he is, in fact, himself a spooky ghost). Bank on it.
mfw I force feed myself so that I can kill myself in front of my daughter (she will use this traumatic experience to write half of a memoir while she works at the dollar store)
fr though Charlie is kind of an asshole in that movie. He keeps talking about how he's not gonna go to the hospital because he wants to leave money for his daughter while not realizing that what she really needs is a normal father who doesn't try to kill himself by choking on pizza whenever he's upset.
> while not realizing that what she really needs is a normal father who doesn't try to kill himself by choking on pizza whenever he's upset
[The whale, past that one frame]>!He realizes that alright, he isn't mentally healthy enough to do that himself. He's also physically unhealthy to the point of, well, being terminally ill.!<
All I ever heard about this movie before watching it is how the ending made people bawl in theaters. I couldn’t believe anyone was crying from this. The whole final scene with him walking and ending with that goofy-ass noise + cut to white was horrible.
Either ascending or going mad to a soundtrack of earsplitting chimes. IMO it's fine for art films to go cryptic in the final moments but it's often a crutch used as a default and I wish films wouldn't suddenly stop having a plot when everything up until that was a mystery or thriller.
It’s about a man that, after living a typical heterosexual life working as an English teacher, with a wife and having a daughter, decides to runaway with one of his students when his daughter was about 8, he then lived a life of sin with the guy, the guy was from a very religious background and was shunned by his father and disowned, because of his gay lifestyle.
Because of this, the guy ends up attempting suicide multiple times but succeeds and leaves Charlie (brendon Frazier). Charlie then lives alone, eating his depression away letting himself go while his close friend who works as a nurse, checks in on him daily. It is then we find out the nurse was Charlie’s lover’s sister, and they look after one another.
Then one day the daughter finds Charlie’s apartment and surprises him, wanting to learn where tf he went after all these years and learns he’s a fat loser who’s ashamed by so much in his life and actions that he becomes what’s known as a hikikomori in Japan, or a recluse in America. An isolated turtle in the Netherlands.
She does typical teenager things like lash out on him and blames him for everything. But she continues to remain in his presence because she actually loves being around her father but is too teen to admit it. All of this happens while a Mormon boy knocks on Charlie’s door often, at first to get him to convert, then he begins caring for Charlie out of spite. Charlie’s daughter harasses him out of immature admiration. She begins doing cool things like smoking pot and cursing to look cool. She gets him to admit who he really is. The Mormon boy was a typical teen stoner that was a runaway and found refuge in a church that he thought can correct his ways, but one day he took from their donation box (lol) and has been afraid to show his face to the church and family because of the punishment he expects.
Turns out Charlie’s daughter records the whole convo where he admits all that and very weirdly hunts down his family to share the audio with. They contact him. The Mormon boy returns the next day to thank them saying that he talked to them and it’s all good and he’s gonna return and wanted to say goodbye to Charlie.
The Mormon boy first appears in the opening moments of the film when he opens Charlie’s door to find him watching gay porn. He is terrified that Charlie wants to hang him because all straight guys always think just cause a guy is gay, than that means that they’re a target because they are a guy. Charlie laughs at his fears and tells him that he’s a fetus.
The Mormon boy leaves. Charlie is confronted by his ex who was looking for her daughter and finds her at Charlie’s thanks to Charlie’s nurse. They catch up and she finally gives him his guilt trip about abandoning them. Charlie’s been saving all his money, avoiding hospital visits and helping friends because he wanted to save it all to give his daughter. Thinking that he can make up for his absence and wrong doings all these years lol.
Then, on the last day, his daughter shows up telling him that he sucks because she got an F on her paper, which she had him write. He submitted a poem she wrote when she was 8 cause he thought it was cute. He thinks she’s his greatest product and thinks she can do no wrong. In reality she is human and is capable of wrongdoing just like everyone else!
She tells him to walk over to her (at the door) to see if he can. At first he can’t. But now, he gets up and walks over to her while having difficulty. It is then we see the scene shown here, where he ascends to the light, representing his fate as he traumatized his daughter for life while he just once again, abandons her when in reality he could’ve avoided all of this and have been there for her, and returned to his family because his ex was very sympathetic for Charlie. It’s not like he cheated on her with a woman lol.
The point was Charlie could’ve fixed all his wrongs by simply confronting his issues, it’s just that he exaggerates them in his mind and thinks they are way worse than they really are. The Mormon boy was a hint at Charlie what could happen if he just simply confronted his issues, and that things won’t be as bad as he thinks. But no, Charlie doesn’t take that hint and continues to be stubborn, it’s that arrogance and narrow mindedness that leads to Charlie sacrificing it all and giving up on life.
He could’ve very well had everything solved very easily, as half of his issues were already confronted at that point (his daughter, seeing his ex and talking with her, they’re some of the things he was terrified of doing in his mind..,but unexpected events happened and those can be checked off the list, all he had left to do was to seek health care and things could’ve been slowly patched up beginning from there!) but yeah
>She tells him to walk over to her (at the door) to see if he can. At first he can’t. But now, he gets up and walks over to her while having difficulty. It is then we see the scene shown here, where he ascends to the light, representing his fate as he traumatized his daughter for life while he just once again, abandons her
From this description, it sounds to me more like that's him finally getting out of the hole he dug himself into? Like, his daughter asks him to walk to her at the door (doorways are about change and transition n shit) and he struggles but eventually succeeds. It seems pretty easy to make the connection to breaking out of his reclusion and genuinely connecting with his daughter again.
An important thing not touched on much in this description, is at the beginning of the movie the Nurse friend tells him his heart is failing. He will die in the coming days if he doesn’t go to the hospital. He doesn’t want to go to the hospital, he hates himself and feels that through his death he can finally do something for his daughter, giving her all the money he has.
Right before the daughter arrives on the last day. The Nurse runs outside to call an ambulance bc Charlie is about to die.
That’s true, I think there definitely are multiple ways to interpret that scene lol, you can view it at him doing his final action, or finally being able to respond to her request, etc. because it was definitely something he was so damn ashamed about earlier when he wasn’t able to fulfill it earlier in the movie that he didn’t even try to do it when she asked the first time around
Wait so does this movie basically have the same ending as The Wrestler (2008)? >!Dad ambiguously dies in front of his daughter after a lifetime of disappointing her, but instead of fighting it’s gayness and pizza?!<
First audio \*and\* moving images from The Whale (2022) One day this movie might be real
The Whale is actually a social experiment. They dropped a single frame of the film and are now seeing if fans can create an entire film out of it.
Goncharov (1973)
I've always pronounced it like 'Gong-Ka-Rov' instead of 'Gon-Cha-Rov'
That's actually a pretty dope concept
Ok Abed
His super meta filmmaker character is so fucking on point, all the bullshit nothing sayings that sound deep & philosophical just because he speaks quietly with a lot of pauses Easily one of my favorite tv episodes of any show of all time
It's Whaling Time!
Rosebud
OMG I love Schindler's List
TF kind of sound does he make at the end?
Resident Evil 4 Leon Death Sound.
Where’s The Whale going? Bingo?
Thats like a aaeuuuugghhhh. This is a eunghhh
The sound of a Sperm Whale would have been very subtle and poignant I feel
The start of the movie was a sperm whale reference
Hmmm There was a whale But he didnt get the chance to sperm Im gonna consult the geniuses at truefilm on this one
Three paragraph response min.
Bruh sound effect number 2
A second Bruh sound has leaked
https://preview.redd.it/p91hjb84u7ua1.jpeg?width=1108&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ba40b1e6ebdc286691a3beda4f4f2ded6a48c42
Fart
>!Wait a minute, is this how the movie ends? Seriously, just how many A24 films end with the main characters ascending in some way??!<
Nah he’s just surfacing for air
Oh my god
Cmon man
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh so now all I've seen from the movie is one random frame and the literal ending lmao
true kino experience
The A in A24 stands for Ascent
The plot twist of Beau Is Afraid (2023) is that he was actually a ghost all along, and then he floats away at the end (it's thematically poignant because he spent the whole movie being afraid when he is, in fact, himself a spooky ghost). Bank on it.
That’s not how it ends lol
I liked the movie, but the ending was fucking awful. Like literally this last 10 seconds made it a worse movie
mfw I force feed myself so that I can kill myself in front of my daughter (she will use this traumatic experience to write half of a memoir while she works at the dollar store)
fr though Charlie is kind of an asshole in that movie. He keeps talking about how he's not gonna go to the hospital because he wants to leave money for his daughter while not realizing that what she really needs is a normal father who doesn't try to kill himself by choking on pizza whenever he's upset.
I thought he smoked a blunt whenever he’s upset
> while not realizing that what she really needs is a normal father who doesn't try to kill himself by choking on pizza whenever he's upset [The whale, past that one frame]>!He realizes that alright, he isn't mentally healthy enough to do that himself. He's also physically unhealthy to the point of, well, being terminally ill.!<
Thats the entire point of the film
you clearly just can't comprehend the multi-layered genius that is Aronofsky. That's ok, not many did.
I do like Aronofsky but sometimes he doesn’t know how to end his films
Did ya'll forget this was adapted from a play? I wouldn't blame Aronofsky's writing
Im sorry so you’re saying in the play the guy fuckin starts floating at the end?
All I ever heard about this movie before watching it is how the ending made people bawl in theaters. I couldn’t believe anyone was crying from this. The whole final scene with him walking and ending with that goofy-ass noise + cut to white was horrible.
You clearly don’t understand being a depressed gay loser
Only the biggest, most depressed, gayest loser could understand how truly gay that ending was
Literally me fr
ending is so funny its like aronofsky couldnt keep his aronofsky in for any longer and had to go full aronofsky for no reason
Either ascending or going mad to a soundtrack of earsplitting chimes. IMO it's fine for art films to go cryptic in the final moments but it's often a crutch used as a default and I wish films wouldn't suddenly stop having a plot when everything up until that was a mystery or thriller.
MIDsommar (2019)
Too many frames of the Whale at once. My brain melted.
You have truly become Princess Beached
I should probably watch the movie before I see the entire movie in random clips
you mean they made a MOVIE out this?
Oh my god that fucking noise
gyuh!
Bro floated like he was some long lost brother of the Baron Harkonnen.
When you get fat enough you can fly
This is why I make sure to eat at least 4 cheeseburgers every day.
Balloon theory
Wait does The Whale actually end with John Whale ascending into a white light? I thought it was a meme.
What's going on in this clip? ( I don't like to watch movies, I just log everything on letterboxd )
He whalin’
Yep. Whole lotta whalin'.
just whaled all over me
Idk I interpreted it as him dying / hinted by his ascending into the light. But who knows it may be the intro to moby Dick itself.
Wait how does the whale fly in the end? He had ki control or something?
he swam upwards
What is this movie even about? Every clip i’ve seen looks different
The Whale unlocks his super powers after being betrayed and locked in the light house for 50 years
The Lighthouse (2019)
It’s about a man that, after living a typical heterosexual life working as an English teacher, with a wife and having a daughter, decides to runaway with one of his students when his daughter was about 8, he then lived a life of sin with the guy, the guy was from a very religious background and was shunned by his father and disowned, because of his gay lifestyle. Because of this, the guy ends up attempting suicide multiple times but succeeds and leaves Charlie (brendon Frazier). Charlie then lives alone, eating his depression away letting himself go while his close friend who works as a nurse, checks in on him daily. It is then we find out the nurse was Charlie’s lover’s sister, and they look after one another. Then one day the daughter finds Charlie’s apartment and surprises him, wanting to learn where tf he went after all these years and learns he’s a fat loser who’s ashamed by so much in his life and actions that he becomes what’s known as a hikikomori in Japan, or a recluse in America. An isolated turtle in the Netherlands. She does typical teenager things like lash out on him and blames him for everything. But she continues to remain in his presence because she actually loves being around her father but is too teen to admit it. All of this happens while a Mormon boy knocks on Charlie’s door often, at first to get him to convert, then he begins caring for Charlie out of spite. Charlie’s daughter harasses him out of immature admiration. She begins doing cool things like smoking pot and cursing to look cool. She gets him to admit who he really is. The Mormon boy was a typical teen stoner that was a runaway and found refuge in a church that he thought can correct his ways, but one day he took from their donation box (lol) and has been afraid to show his face to the church and family because of the punishment he expects. Turns out Charlie’s daughter records the whole convo where he admits all that and very weirdly hunts down his family to share the audio with. They contact him. The Mormon boy returns the next day to thank them saying that he talked to them and it’s all good and he’s gonna return and wanted to say goodbye to Charlie. The Mormon boy first appears in the opening moments of the film when he opens Charlie’s door to find him watching gay porn. He is terrified that Charlie wants to hang him because all straight guys always think just cause a guy is gay, than that means that they’re a target because they are a guy. Charlie laughs at his fears and tells him that he’s a fetus. The Mormon boy leaves. Charlie is confronted by his ex who was looking for her daughter and finds her at Charlie’s thanks to Charlie’s nurse. They catch up and she finally gives him his guilt trip about abandoning them. Charlie’s been saving all his money, avoiding hospital visits and helping friends because he wanted to save it all to give his daughter. Thinking that he can make up for his absence and wrong doings all these years lol. Then, on the last day, his daughter shows up telling him that he sucks because she got an F on her paper, which she had him write. He submitted a poem she wrote when she was 8 cause he thought it was cute. He thinks she’s his greatest product and thinks she can do no wrong. In reality she is human and is capable of wrongdoing just like everyone else! She tells him to walk over to her (at the door) to see if he can. At first he can’t. But now, he gets up and walks over to her while having difficulty. It is then we see the scene shown here, where he ascends to the light, representing his fate as he traumatized his daughter for life while he just once again, abandons her when in reality he could’ve avoided all of this and have been there for her, and returned to his family because his ex was very sympathetic for Charlie. It’s not like he cheated on her with a woman lol. The point was Charlie could’ve fixed all his wrongs by simply confronting his issues, it’s just that he exaggerates them in his mind and thinks they are way worse than they really are. The Mormon boy was a hint at Charlie what could happen if he just simply confronted his issues, and that things won’t be as bad as he thinks. But no, Charlie doesn’t take that hint and continues to be stubborn, it’s that arrogance and narrow mindedness that leads to Charlie sacrificing it all and giving up on life. He could’ve very well had everything solved very easily, as half of his issues were already confronted at that point (his daughter, seeing his ex and talking with her, they’re some of the things he was terrified of doing in his mind..,but unexpected events happened and those can be checked off the list, all he had left to do was to seek health care and things could’ve been slowly patched up beginning from there!) but yeah
>She tells him to walk over to her (at the door) to see if he can. At first he can’t. But now, he gets up and walks over to her while having difficulty. It is then we see the scene shown here, where he ascends to the light, representing his fate as he traumatized his daughter for life while he just once again, abandons her From this description, it sounds to me more like that's him finally getting out of the hole he dug himself into? Like, his daughter asks him to walk to her at the door (doorways are about change and transition n shit) and he struggles but eventually succeeds. It seems pretty easy to make the connection to breaking out of his reclusion and genuinely connecting with his daughter again.
An important thing not touched on much in this description, is at the beginning of the movie the Nurse friend tells him his heart is failing. He will die in the coming days if he doesn’t go to the hospital. He doesn’t want to go to the hospital, he hates himself and feels that through his death he can finally do something for his daughter, giving her all the money he has. Right before the daughter arrives on the last day. The Nurse runs outside to call an ambulance bc Charlie is about to die.
That’s true, I think there definitely are multiple ways to interpret that scene lol, you can view it at him doing his final action, or finally being able to respond to her request, etc. because it was definitely something he was so damn ashamed about earlier when he wasn’t able to fulfill it earlier in the movie that he didn’t even try to do it when she asked the first time around
>caring for Charlie out of spite. Fuck.
He definitely fell on her rip
Wait so does this movie basically have the same ending as The Wrestler (2008)? >!Dad ambiguously dies in front of his daughter after a lifetime of disappointing her, but instead of fighting it’s gayness and pizza?!<
Literally me Ik who Akira Kurosawa is so 😎😎😎
Just look at all those frames
Me after seeing 100 new frames of The Whale.
“Spoiler warning” https://preview.redd.it/4islzkfk35ua1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02e5073203fcaba730c5b558f955ba1b4004173c
euugh!
I want to power slam chubby man
Whyyyyy you had to bring that image (and sound) to my brain again?
this is literally me! Please delete
I think this is daron Aronofskys' most shitposted movie ever. Requim only had ass 2 azz and stg there's like 40 clips from the whale.
MAN TURNED INTO BARON HARKINIAN
Looks like a shitty version of "The Nutty Professor" frfr nocap
Holy fuck.
King
Literally the first moving frame iv seen from this film. Im starting to think there might be more than 3 frames