[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yes, I liked that one too. Although several of my colleagues didn’t. But then again, I’m a bit older than many of them, so it had the extra “comeback effect” on me that they didn’t experience. Meaning I was a teen/young adult when films like GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE or THE MUMMY came out, and had that close relationship to Fraser and his onscreen persona. So when he “returned” with this, and in a serious role, no less, it had double effect on me. Same thing that happened with Luc Besson’s LUCY, such a formidable comeback that actually made me cry silently in the movie theatre, the return of my 90s hero, in full form.

But anyway, in addition to the moving Fraser performance, I think Aronofsky also solved the “closed quarters” aspect much better in THE WHALE than he did in the rather irritating and aggravating MOTHER! (2017).