Whalefall - Let's Grieve Together

Whale Fall, directed by Brian Duffield, starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, uh, Em- Emily Rudd, among others.

Honestly, not really among others.

That's pretty much it.

[laughs] Very small cast in this film.

Uh, very small scale, but with, uh, a nice emotional depth to it.

Following the death of his father, Jay Gardner goes diving off the central coast of California in search for his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale.

While trapped inside its belly with only an hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.

And that's pretty much what it is.

So like, obviously the, the movie has an escape, or, or a harrowing escape element to it, but a lot of it is due to this character, Jay, played by Austin Abrams, exploring kind of his traumatic childhood in a sense.

I, I, I don't use that in kind of the, like, every movie is about trauma now, uh, kinda, kinda sense.

This movie f- almost feels like a throwback to, like, a, a different time in terms of, like, movies, like, about, like, familial trauma or whatever.

It, it feels like a, like, high-class, like, Disney [laughs] movie.

[laughs] That...

I don't know if that makes sense to anybody.

I, I, I don't mean it as, like, a, as a negative.

It's just kind of what it reminds me of, and, like, the feeling that it kind of evokes.

'Cause I do s- I would say it is effective to a degree.

Uh, like, I, by the end of this, I was, like, a little bit teary-eyed.

I didn't, like, full-on cry or anything like that.

But it is emotions, or it is emotional, and it does kind of try and intentionally pull on those strings, which usually if I'm, like, okay, like, with the movie and how it's going, I'm kind of okay with that sort of like, okay, like, you're kind of, uh, pulling my strings intentionally, uh, or, or, like, trying to do that.

Uh, if I'm not as okay with, like, the movie as a whole, then I kind of get more annoyed with that sort of, uh, intention.

Uh, over here I didn't get really that, like, frustrated with that.

So, uh, overall, I enjoyed the movie, and it was just way deeper [laughs] for lack of a better term, than I was expecting.

Uh, but that's not a bad thing, like, in the slightest, to be honest.

Like, if anything, it's, it's better that it has more emotional depth than, um, I was expecting, 'cause that's always a, a welcome thing.

Whale Fall, directed by Brian Duffield, starring Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Shue, John Ortiz, Jane Levy, uh, Em- Emily Rudd, among others.

Honestly, not really among others.

That's pretty much it.

[laughs] Very small cast in this film.

Uh, very small scale, but with, uh, a nice emotional depth to it.

Following the death of his father, Jay Gardner goes diving off the central coast of California in search for his remains, but is swallowed by a massive sperm whale.

While trapped inside its belly with only an hour of oxygen left, Jay comes to realize the hard-earned lessons his father imparted may be the key to his escape.

And that's pretty much what it is.

So like, obviously the, the movie has an escape, or, or a harrowing escape element to it, but a lot of it is due to this character, Jay, played by Austin Abrams, exploring kind of his traumatic childhood in a sense.

I, I, I don't use that in kind of the, like, every movie is about trauma now, uh, kinda, kinda sense.

This movie f- almost feels like a throwback to, like, a, a different time in terms of, like, movies, like, about, like, familial trauma or whatever.

It, it feels like a, like, high-class, like, Disney [laughs] movie.

[laughs] That...

I don't know if that makes sense to anybody.

I, I, I don't mean it as, like, a, as a negative.

It's just kind of what it reminds me of, and, like, the feeling that it kind of evokes.

'Cause I do s- I would say it is effective to a degree.

Uh, like, I, by the end of this, I was, like, a little bit teary-eyed.

I didn't, like, full-on cry or anything like that.

But it is emotions, or it is emotional, and it does kind of try and intentionally pull on those strings, which usually if I'm, like, okay, like, with the movie and how it's going, I'm kind of okay with that sort of like, okay, like, you're kind of, uh, pulling my strings intentionally, uh, or, or, like, trying to do that.

Uh, if I'm not as okay with, like, the movie as a whole, then I kind of get more annoyed with that sort of, uh, intention.

Uh, over here I didn't get really that, like, frustrated with that.

So, uh, overall, I enjoyed the movie, and it was just way deeper [laughs] for lack of a better term, than I was expecting.

Uh, but that's not a bad thing, like, in the slightest, to be honest.

Like, if anything, it's, it's better that it has more emotional depth than, um, I was expecting, 'cause that's always a, a welcome thing.