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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
Yesterday finally arrived, the day when I would see the movie that has been the most talked about lately in this awards season, and what it has managed to get has been no small thing, not to mention the standing ovations and very emotional and heartfelt speeches by Brendan Fraser, one of them at the SAG Awards (go listen to it if you haven't). The emotional context that this man has is gigantic because he is someone who was retired from the screen for many years dealing with personal issues so to see him come back and give us a role and a performance like this is something that will make anyone's heart shrivel. And yes, I'm saying it once and for all: Brendan Fraser is going to win the Oscar thanks to this film, don't doubt it.
I knew that this film was going to be one of intense emotions, one of those that make you reflect on many areas of life and one that also because of all this was going to be extremely raw, the truth? - It is all this and much more. Because make no mistake, this story is not about morbid obesity and its effects on health, which it does show; it is about how that same obesity is the result of an emotional and mental breakdown due to not being able to face or deal with a series of situations. It is simply to lie down to die and that food is responsible for filling the void that a depression, a bereavement or a family problem has left in the life of our protagonist. But without further ado, let's delve a little deeper into this magnificent film.
The one you see there is Charlie (Brendan Fraser) and he is an English teacher at a high school who teaches online for the reasons you can imagine. He is a lonely person whose will to live was taken away a long time ago, not to get to the point of taking his own life in an instant but to do that very thing little by little and make the process slower and more painful. Charlie does not have control of his life in his hands, the fact that he is alive does not depend on him, it is a matter of time and an inseparable friend he has, Liz (Hong Chau) who has been and continues to be in the most complicated moments of our professor. How is it possible for a person to reach such a state? - That is the question that everyone is asking and in less than two hours its director Darren Aronofsky will answer them.
Charlie despite everything had a life and it was one that brought him a daughter, Ellie (Sadie Sink), a teenager annoyed with the world, with a contained rage and without a fixed direction with which our protagonist will have to make the passes. From here is when the plot, if we can say that this film has one, starts and we begin to see the day to day life of this man who is sunk in a very deep misery. The film is presented to us as Charlie's day to day life, we start on a Monday and move through the week. I'm not going to lie, there are many passages of the film where simply watching is difficult because the images are grotesque, it is witnessing the deterioration of a person who stopped fighting, that pain and guilt ate him up inside and now he is in a kind of drifting sea.
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This story takes place in four walls, there are no exteriors, no outrageous cinematography, and no flashy scenes; it's all on a couch, in a kitchen, and in a room. Why? - Because the story doesn't need more. This is purely emotional, it's all about relationships, how you deal with those relationships, how you deal with ghosts of the past and above all how, thanks to the decisions of the present, you can pass sentence for your future. One of the things that blew my mind is the amount of "conflicts" or "issues" that Charlie has, homosexuality, how that led him to move away from his family, the mourning of a loved one, the guilt of not having a healthy relationship with his daughter and as if that were not enough there is a big questioning with faith and God, how can religion be so saving and destructive for people.
It's all very dense, when I say that emotional breakdowns are dangerous, it's because Charlie is the living portrait of that. It is a film that leads us to question many things, to be a little more introspective and see if we are doing things moderately well, it is looking to check if there is something out there that needs to be addressed because otherwise it may be too late. And the core of everything is mental health and how important it is to take care of it and try to underestimate it as little as possible because it is real, it is suffered and it can be dangerous if we do not treat it in time. Aha but what about obesity? - friends, obesity is a consequence, at least in this particular case. It also requires attention? - Of course and with Charlie we will also realize that. What I want to say is that although it may seem a lie, it is not the main problem.
What will I keep? - With the positivity of this gentleman. Wherever you see him, he is a person who will always look for the best in others, either out of guilt or because he really feels it. The whole relationship and interaction with Ellie leads us to the last thing I said and closes with the final ten minutes of the film that personally destroyed me completely; it is in those 10 minutes where the Oscar fell from the sky to Brendan. It has been a long time since a movie had touched me the way this one did and one of the reasons for this conclusion is Charlie's eyes, please, if you have not seen it, see his eyes when there is pain and suffering or when a sensitive subject emerges, they say that the eyes are the door to the soul.
Brendan Fraser here was a monster of acting, with all that makeup on top he was still able to give us a role that will be marked for the history of modern cinema. Everything he did was impeccable, honestly he left me speechless. I think there was a little bit of his own feelings when interpreting what made the result was huge. That's all there is to say. Sadie Sink was another one that playing a "simple" role came and left a mark, her present and future is gigantic, let's not stay with Stranger Things, from now on remember her with this character. And finally we do not talk about Hong Chau but she is key in this story, she is the unconditional friend who is pending of Charlie and who takes care of him but what she does with her hands she damages him with her feet, it is a strange relationship where what really rules is love, because yes, despite what you will see or saw there is a deep affection between the two of them.
9/10, I don't give it a 10 because perfection does not exist or at least it is difficult to find. I think I've said it all, what's left is for you to go and see it. If you like movies, good stories and excellent performances is a must that you take a look at it. I leave you the trailer below.
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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!





