{"id":2698,"date":"2023-04-02T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2023-04-02T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:41:10","slug":"todays-movie-the-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s movie: The Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2699\" src=\"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The Whale\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/the-whale.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13833688\">The Whale<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004716\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a> with among others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000409\">Brendan Fraser<\/a> and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5584750\">Sadie Sink<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2186865\">Hong Chau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0608090\"><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1339223\">Ty Simpkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the movie alludes to cetaceans, it is carried by a behemoth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000409\">Fraser<\/a>&#8216;s performance really propels the story forward. He makes a movie, which already stands on its own, go much further, and it is no wonder that he won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.<\/p>\n<p>The movie itself talks about a recurring theme in recent movies I&#8217;ve seen, the challenges and inner human wish to be kind to each other. In the case of <i>&#8220;The Whale&#8221;<\/i>, it weights on the difficulties to develop and hinder such kindness. Like a kaleidoscope, it develops through its characters the delicate balance between compassion and indifference, and how as human beings our personality and backstory position ourselves into that balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whale by Darren Aronofsky with among others Brendan Fraser and also Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, and Ty Simpkins. While the movie alludes to cetaceans, it is carried by a behemoth. Fraser&#8216;s performance really propels the story forward. He makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/?p=2698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[516],"tags":[1134,1136,1135,1133],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-movie","tag-the-whale","tag-aronofsky","tag-fraser","tag-whale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hauweele.net\/~gawen\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}