The Whale: The Redemption of a Father-Daughter Relationship

He turn his body into a fat beluga whale, The body is full of pain, guilt and sadness, paralyzed the soul with food, and punished himself with self-indulgence. 

After 5 years, Darren Aronofsky's new work is finally no longer playing religious metaphors with absurd fantasy, but tells the story of faith and redemption through the tragic past of a gay man and the loss of his family.

The overall setting is using the stage pattern, a single indoor space will not be boring. Darren made full use of light, shadow and scheduling to make a single scene support the performance.  Compared with moaning for no reason, Brendan Fisher pretended to be a terminally ill person with a 100-kilogram prop.

After more than 10 years, Brandon returned to the film industry again, the role this time is undoubtedly a role tailor-made for him by Darren. Fisher endured the same hardships both in and out of the play, fading his good appearance and fading out of the screen. The design of Brendan Fisher standing up alone in heavy costumes and walking towards his daughter's arms step by step is really shocking. This is not only the salvation achieved by Charlie and his daughter's reconciliation, but also the reconciliation of Brendan Fisher's reunion with the past. The salvation of self-reconciliation.

"When I read those boring articles about whales, I know it's just the author trying to take us out of the sad story for a while." I don't need any redemption, because your words have saved me, and now you reading it out to me is already a salvation for me without regrets in this life.

 Darren cleverly uses literature as a medium, and at the same time strengthens the salvation in religious belief. You don’t need to believe in religion, but in the process of believing in religion, faith will achieve the power of salvation invisibly.There are many gaps between father and daughter . Even if they don't believe that one person can bring salvation to the other, their daughter will always believe it no matter what.

Sady Sink, who played Max in "Stranger Things", was also in a predicament similar to Brendan Fisher in Season 4, closing her heart and no longer communicating with the outside world, and finally relying on the calls of friends again and again to break free from the shackles of the past and regain a new life. In this film, she plays the role of redemption, allowing her father to stand up again, and to find redemption with the image of getting rid of the shackles of the body. It is quite interesting.