{"id":5862,"date":"2026-01-29T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:14","slug":"the-whale-by-darren-aronofsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/01\/29\/the-whale-by-darren-aronofsky\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Whale<\/em> by Darren Aronofsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705\ufe0f Fraser and Chau got their Oscars for a reason and I doubt anyone but Fraser could\u2019ve pulled this off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f I cried almost as much as in <em>The Bridges of Madison County<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705\ufe0f Libatique\u2019s work with Primes and the Sony Venice is amazing, and the slightly underexposed look is spot-on.<\/p>\n<p>Besides other nonsense I read, those who claim <em>The Whale<\/em> were fat-shaming must have seen a different movie.<\/p>\n<p>(Sidenote: young Mary and Charlie\u2019s students aren\u2019t credited, which is odd.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Whale_(2022_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>The Whale<\/em><\/a> by Darren Aronofsky, 2022.<br \/>\nWatched at the Cinema theater on January 28, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/01\/29\/the-whale-by-darren-aronofsky\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Whale by Darren Aronofsky\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Frazer\u2019s been among my favorite actors since forever.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}