I believe it was the daughter who broke the plate. She noticed that Charly left a plate of food for the bird, and she felt jealous that he had spent more time taking care of this bird than he did with her in the past decade.
It was definitely Ellie. I remember when I was 10, my mom had just died. We arrived back home from her funeral and white dove was perched upon our grandparents home. Everyone was so astonished by it, saying it was an offering of peace and love from God for our pain. When everyone went inside I threw rocks at it until it finally flew away. I was rejecting everyone and everything out fear of loss. If I never gained attachment, I could never lose someone or be abandonded. That to me explains why Ellie behaves as she does.
This reaction video is an example of the honesty that is important to the main character in the film. This channel has become my "go to" reaction channel when I want sincere, honest reactions rather than performances for content, and I am truly grateful.
"I need to know that I have done one right thing with my life!" Fun Fact: Based on a theatrical play of the same name. Stand-In Fact: Young Ellie in the flashback scenes is played by Sadie Sink's little sister, Jacey. The film's writer Samuel D. Hunter, served as a typing double for Brendan Fraser. Location Location Fact: Throughout the film, Charlie (Brendan Fraser) orders food from Gambino's, which is actually an Italian restaurant in Moscow, Idaho, where the film is set. Screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter grew up in Moscow. Standing Ovation Fact: Following its debut screening at the Venice Film Festival, both the movie and lead actor, Brendan Fraser, were given a six-minute standing ovation; a moment, caught on camera, that brought Fraser to tears. Long time fans and critics alike have called The Whale (2022) a revival of Fraser's career after many years of absence from the screen.
This reminds me of "phone booth" with Colin Farrell where he is just on the phone for 80% of the movie, its mostly fine tuned in with the dialogue and character development. its amazing. Brendan is stellar here omg its insane how deep he went with this one.
Brendan Fraser was heartbreaking, and profoundly beautiful in this film. Well, I took my mother to see this movie at the theater, she did not have a dry eye after this movie was over. A well-deserved Academy award for him indeed
I loved the film. Based on his acting history, Brendan Fraser gave a performance I didn’t think he was capable of, and I think he deserved the Oscar win. I appreciated your comments and observations. You don’t speak in the typical clichés most reactors do.
@@MichalZismanReactions I haven’t seen Bill Nighy in “Living” yet, but he is a great actor and I’m looking forward to it. The rest were fine, but their performances were not close to Fraser’s, in my opinion.
Yeah, Liz is enabling him while shouting at him because he doesn't want to fight anymore. It must be some very weird kind of mindstate to have to go through that twice. With her brother and now with Charlie. At some point she probably broke and its the shouting that shows she still cares a little but doesn't have enough strenght to follow through completely and call an ambulance to get him to the hospital or something.
I'm so glad someone sees that Liz is such an enabler. Yes, she MEANS well, but if she really wanted the best for Charlie, she wouldn't provide all the crap he wants, she would do what's really best for him. BTW, I don't know if anyone's ever told you, but you resemble Michaela Watkins so much!!
Yeah Liz is broken I think. She has just enough strenght to flare up (shout at him) once in a while but realy can only be there to make him as comfortable as can be even though she knows its not good. Whats the point of if you know the persone is just done and you can't push more. Might as well just give him what he wants and make him happy for a sliver of time.
I think you didn't give Liz enough credit. She's been taking care of Charlie full time, literally for nothing, walked through the snow for his groceries, did so without adaptive equipment and still you shit on her for being protective of the last extension of her brother. She's not a piece of shit, you just don't care enough about anyone to be protective of them to that degree
If u love movies that make u feel all these emotions .... then u need to watch "I am Sam" with Sean Penn..... and "Forever young" with Mel Gibson..... two amazing movies about LIFE.....
thats the point though; people are awful, in their own ways. everyone is. but the point is that like Charlie says, people are amazing, and ARE capable of caring and doing the right thing. and it starts with being honest.
@@ItsMeBarnaby They don't have to be heroes, but I need at least some good in them. Judgmental POS? OK. But I guess the daughter and his lover's sister didn't strike you as judgmental at all. I am guessing your real problem is the "Christian" part.
@@ItsMeBarnaby I think he was a decent but flawed person who was trying to do good to atone for his past mistake. I like people who at least try to good over people who sit around and feel sorry for themselves and/or try to harm people. It clearly states homosexuality is a sin in the Bible, so if you believe in God and the Bible, you of course would want to save people from Hell, even if Barnaby on the internet doesn't believe in the Bible. You seem pretty judgmental yourself, and revealing your own bigotry more and more. Be careful about casting those stones about, lest you hit yourself.
He believes (and even states verbatim) that "...people are incapable of not caring, people are amazing". That includes his daughter. I think that he feels that people are caring by default and that it is due to trauma that people pull back from the world and attack each other as a form of defense mechanism. He feels a huge amount of guilt because he believes that he caused the trauma in his daughter that resulted in her feelings toward people and the world that she exhibits in the film.... her trauma due to feeling that she was abandoned, and questioning whether it was due to a lack on her part...that she was deserving of abandonment. This is what he is hoping to help her resolve. Telling her, regardless of her abusive language towards him, that he loves her unconditionally and sees beyond her lashing out at him and also lashing out to protect herself. If she lashes out at him then she can tell herself that it is due to her abusive behavior toward him that is the cause in case he turns his back on her again. She is providing the reason ahead of any future repeat abandonment to protect herself from what she fears which is that she deserved being abandoned and that she is still unworthy of his parental love. And in that final scene... I think he knew that the exertion would kill him and he wanted to die in this moment of reconciliation and in a way... sacrifice himself to her as penance for his past actions and also, ..showing her that she was more important to him than even life itself. This was all he was living for at this point in his life. To undo the damage he caused. I don't know if it was the lighting or change of colors or perhaps just the sun on her face, but when she finally says, "Daddy please" the visual of her face parallels her change in emotion and language. I think its the first time she calls him, "Daddy" (I could be wrong) but its definitely the first time she speaks to him with love. I think she is no longer feeling a lack of self-worth and she is no longer angry at the world and not lashing out at her father. She is free of this burden so that she can now love again. He leaves this world happy. In "Moby Dick" the great white whale harmed Ahab.....and this caused Ahab to waste his life due to his hatred of the Great white whale. In this story, the whale lives in guilt and regret for the harm done to Ahab (the daughter) and the whale spends his life to make up for the harm he caused, so that his daughter does not waste her life on hate, but instead, can again love.
I think a good example is when she says she's going to make him a sandwich, and then points out how she's going to make it small, no mayo, and only turkey. She's trying to be a bitch but it's the most another person has gone out of their way to help him with his actual problem, his food addiction. Same with how she finds out Thomas is a runaway theif, and her first instinct is to contact his family and his church. She's trying to be a bitch, and yet she is still incapable of not caring. Like how Thomas finds Charlie disgusting for both his sexuality and his weight, but still wants to "save his soul". No matter how much hatred a person is filled with, they're almost never empty inside.
I believe it was the daughter who broke the plate. She noticed that Charly left a plate of food for the bird, and she felt jealous that he had spent more time taking care of this bird than he did with her in the past decade.
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I thought the same the second time I watched that scene
Charlie will find some way to see her as "amazing" for doing it.
It was definitely Ellie. I remember when I was 10, my mom had just died. We arrived back home from her funeral and white dove was perched upon our grandparents home. Everyone was so astonished by it, saying it was an offering of peace and love from God for our pain. When everyone went inside I threw rocks at it until it finally flew away. I was rejecting everyone and everything out fear of loss. If I never gained attachment, I could never lose someone or be abandonded. That to me explains why Ellie behaves as she does.
In the original script, Ellie killed the bird by smashing the plate on it. Swear to god!
Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the movie.
He gave a great performance!
This reaction video is an example of the honesty that is important to the main character in the film.
This channel has become my "go to" reaction channel when I want sincere, honest reactions rather than performances for content, and I am truly grateful.
Chandie... 🥹🫶
"I need to know that I have done one right thing with my life!"
Fun Fact: Based on a theatrical play of the same name.
Stand-In Fact: Young Ellie in the flashback scenes is played by Sadie Sink's little sister, Jacey. The film's writer Samuel D. Hunter, served as a typing double for Brendan Fraser.
Location Location Fact: Throughout the film, Charlie (Brendan Fraser) orders food from Gambino's, which is actually an Italian restaurant in Moscow, Idaho, where the film is set. Screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter grew up in Moscow.
Standing Ovation Fact: Following its debut screening at the Venice Film Festival, both the movie and lead actor, Brendan Fraser, were given a six-minute standing ovation; a moment, caught on camera, that brought Fraser to tears. Long time fans and critics alike have called The Whale (2022) a revival of Fraser's career after many years of absence from the screen.
This reminds me of "phone booth" with Colin Farrell where he is just on the phone for 80% of the movie, its mostly fine tuned in with the dialogue and character development. its amazing. Brendan is stellar here omg its insane how deep he went with this one.
Brendan Fraser was heartbreaking, and profoundly beautiful in this film. Well, I took my mother to see this movie at the theater, she did not have a dry eye after this movie was over. A well-deserved Academy award for him indeed
17:58 that was funny timing haha
I think the pizza guy felt bad knowing he was feeding a dying man
i agree , it sorta comes off like .... ewwww disgusting but i got the impression hes like ... damn if i had only known .
Nah he was just a prick
I loved the film. Based on his acting history, Brendan Fraser gave a performance I didn’t think he was capable of, and I think he deserved the Oscar win. I appreciated your comments and observations. You don’t speak in the typical clichés most reactors do.
Haven't yet seen the other nominees this year, but he really did an incredible job.
@@MichalZismanReactions I haven’t seen Bill Nighy in “Living” yet, but he is a great actor and I’m looking forward to it. The rest were fine, but their performances were not close to Fraser’s, in my opinion.
Yeah, Liz is enabling him while shouting at him because he doesn't want to fight anymore. It must be some very weird kind of mindstate to have to go through that twice. With her brother and now with Charlie. At some point she probably broke and its the shouting that shows she still cares a little but doesn't have enough strenght to follow through completely and call an ambulance to get him to the hospital or something.
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This was an Amazing performance by Brendan Fraser.
I loved how real Liz was too.
She broke the plate bc she was jealous he was caring for the bird but he was not there for her
Let's talk about how with me praising them non stop, Thomas and Dan turned out to be the "bad" guys 😂
"This a-part-ment smells.
I hate eve-ry-one."
I think that's a verse structure known as iambic pentameter.
I feel that way about Phonebooth. One set/location. Yes, the script has to be fantastic, to pull that off! ✌️
I'm so glad someone sees that Liz is such an enabler. Yes, she MEANS well, but if she really wanted the best for Charlie, she wouldn't provide all the crap he wants, she would do what's really best for him. BTW, I don't know if anyone's ever told you, but you resemble Michaela Watkins so much!!
It's like giving drugs to a drug addict.
Yeah Liz is broken I think. She has just enough strenght to flare up (shout at him) once in a while but realy can only be there to make him as comfortable as can be even though she knows its not good. Whats the point of if you know the persone is just done and you can't push more. Might as well just give him what he wants and make him happy for a sliver of time.
INCREDIBLE MOVIE !!!!!!!!!!! VERY MOVING !!!!!!!!
Depth, of movie & reaction. 👌👏
I think you didn't give Liz enough credit. She's been taking care of Charlie full time, literally for nothing, walked through the snow for his groceries, did so without adaptive equipment and still you shit on her for being protective of the last extension of her brother. She's not a piece of shit, you just don't care enough about anyone to be protective of them to that degree
blessings!
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If u love movies that make u feel all these emotions .... then u need to watch "I am Sam" with Sean Penn..... and "Forever young" with Mel Gibson..... two amazing movies about LIFE.....
For a while now I've been debating with myself if I should watch I am Sam, so thanks for recommending it 😁
Adapted from a play, I believe.
Your perspective about liz here is so upsetting. You need to reconsider it.
Nahh 😁
I really don't like this movie. Everyone in it is awful except the naïve missionary who at least is trying to do good.
thats the point though; people are awful, in their own ways. everyone is. but the point is that like Charlie says, people are amazing, and ARE capable of caring and doing the right thing. and it starts with being honest.
@@ItsMeBarnaby They don't have to be heroes, but I need at least some good in them.
Judgmental POS? OK.
But I guess the daughter and his lover's sister didn't strike you as judgmental at all.
I am guessing your real problem is the "Christian" part.
@@ItsMeBarnaby I think he was a decent but flawed person who was trying to do good to atone for his past mistake.
I like people who at least try to good over people who sit around and feel sorry for themselves and/or try to harm people.
It clearly states homosexuality is a sin in the Bible, so if you believe in God and the Bible, you of course would want to save people from Hell, even if Barnaby on the internet doesn't believe in the Bible.
You seem pretty judgmental yourself, and revealing your own bigotry more and more.
Be careful about casting those stones about, lest you hit yourself.
Manchester by the Sea... Watch some comedies first!
Why does he keep calling his daughter an amazing person? She's awful.
😆 She's for sure hard to handle
He believes (and even states verbatim) that "...people are incapable of not caring, people are amazing". That includes his daughter.
I think that he feels that people are caring by default and that it is due to trauma that people pull back from the world and attack each other as a form of defense mechanism.
He feels a huge amount of guilt because he believes that he caused the trauma in his daughter that resulted in her feelings toward people and the world that she exhibits in the film.... her trauma due to feeling that she was abandoned, and questioning whether it was due to a lack on her part...that she was deserving of abandonment. This is what he is hoping to help her resolve. Telling her, regardless of her abusive language towards him, that he loves her unconditionally and sees beyond her lashing out at him and also lashing out to protect herself. If she lashes out at him then she can tell herself that it is due to her abusive behavior toward him that is the cause in case he turns his back on her again. She is providing the reason ahead of any future repeat abandonment to protect herself from what she fears which is that she deserved being abandoned and that she is still unworthy of his parental love.
And in that final scene... I think he knew that the exertion would kill him and he wanted to die in this moment of reconciliation and in a way... sacrifice himself to her as penance for his past actions and also, ..showing her that she was more important to him than even life itself.
This was all he was living for at this point in his life. To undo the damage he caused.
I don't know if it was the lighting or change of colors or perhaps just the sun on her face, but when she finally says, "Daddy please" the visual of her face parallels her change in emotion and language. I think its the first time she calls him, "Daddy" (I could be wrong) but its definitely the first time she speaks to him with love.
I think she is no longer feeling a lack of self-worth and she is no longer angry at the world and not lashing out at her father. She is free of this burden so that she can now love again. He leaves this world happy.
In "Moby Dick" the great white whale harmed Ahab.....and this caused Ahab to waste his life due to his hatred of the Great white whale.
In this story, the whale lives in guilt and regret for the harm done to Ahab (the daughter) and the whale spends his life to make up for the harm he caused, so that his daughter does not waste her life on hate, but instead, can again love.
I think a good example is when she says she's going to make him a sandwich, and then points out how she's going to make it small, no mayo, and only turkey.
She's trying to be a bitch but it's the most another person has gone out of their way to help him with his actual problem, his food addiction. Same with how she finds out Thomas is a runaway theif, and her first instinct is to contact his family and his church.
She's trying to be a bitch, and yet she is still incapable of not caring. Like how Thomas finds Charlie disgusting for both his sexuality and his weight, but still wants to "save his soul". No matter how much hatred a person is filled with, they're almost never empty inside.
Exactly she's a nasty piece of work tbh