Letterboxd — Your life in film

It would be trying to punch well above my class to take on an intelligent diatribe about the fatphobic nature of this film, which I truly want to believe is more nuanced than my initial reading here, but I can say without a doubt that the scoring choices made in this film are telegraphing A LOT about what Aronofsky (at the very least) doesn’t mind us feeling about his protagonist— and even without diving deeper, those cues alone make for a…

I say this as someone who really likes both JUNO and TULLY- and who really makes an effort not to rag on films of any kind, particularly small, character based ones... but this was an absolutely horrendous hour and a half. I personally found nothing enjoyable, interesting, profound, or humorous here. Sigh.

EDIT: I had a great conversation with a friend about this film yesterday. She loves it and passionately explained why. Given that we were able to have a…