The Whale

Charlie is a Lonely fat English teacher who suffers from heart failure and who lives secluded in his house, he only has five days to live and seeks to redeem himself with his loved ones before dying since society is usually cruel to people like Charlie this prefers not being seen

While giving his classes by video call he pretends that the camera is not working and when he orders food at home he asks that the product be left at the door so that he does not see it one day Charlie has severe chest pain he thinks he is going to die of a heart attack and for this reason he begins to read a Moby Dick essay that seems to have

A lot of value for him in that Just in time to save Charlie, a missionary from the New Life church arrives at Thomas who goes from house to house preaching Charly asks him that he read the essay to him because he wants it to be the last thing he hears before he dies and while Thomas recites it Charlie calms down suddenly Liz, Charlie's best friend and

Who akes care of him, arrives and when she finds out that Thomas is from the New Life church he tells him He throws him out of the house immediately Liz has something personal against that church that will soon be revealed Liz helps every day Charlie is very worried about him and insists that he go to the hospital to get medical help because if he doesn't he will die soon

But Charlie tells him no he has money to cover expenses and that he prefers to die at home however Liz does not know that Charlie really has 120 thousand dollars saved but for some reason he does not want anyone to know Charlie knows he is going to die and before doing so he wants to reconnect with his daughter Eli, who has

Not seen him for nine years, happens that Charlie was married to Mary and they had a daughter together, however, before being as he is, Charlie gave face-to-face classes and in one of them he met Alan, one of his students, they spent time together and they fell in love and Charlie he made the decision to leave his family for him

And he was eight years old when this happened so Charlie looks for him and directly without letting him know and convinces her to visit him at his house and he arrives and is quite cold and harsh to him She says that she only came because she wants him to help her with an essay that she has to hand in since she is on the verge of failing high school. Charlie wants her to

Continue coming to visit him and finally manages to convince her by offering her money, however, she already resents him enough, the abandonment caused her a personality He rejects everything, he has no friends and he lives it annoying everyone he meets, he tells Charlie that he hates him that it disgusts him and that

If he loves her as much as he presumes he does, he gets up without his walker and walks towards her Charlie tells him he tries but he struggles a lot and he gives up and gets angry and leaves the house angry Liz discovers that he and came to see Charlie and scolds him because he fears that this may

Hurt him since his daughter is quite problematic the missionary Thomas returns to visit Charlie, but Liz meets him again and angrily takes him out of the house to tell him why he hates the New Life church, it turns out that Liz is Alan's adoptive sister, Charlie's partner, his father ran the

New Life church, so They both grew up there with very strict rules, including the total rejection of homosexuality, but when they talked, he met Charlie, he decided to give himself a chance to build a life with him. Until he saw his family again, his father condemned him for it and separated him from

His family and church rejection was intolerable for Alan and he fell into a deep depression that led to an eating disorder. Alan did not eat for weeks and lost extreme weight until he finally took his own life by jumping off a bridge this triggered a depression in Charlie believes that he could have done something more to save

Alan and this emotional anguish caused him the same disorder but the reverse eating compulsively until he reached the condition in which he finds himself Liz finishes telling Tomás but he continues to believe that God put him there to take his word to Charlie, so he will return and continue visiting Charlie and he takes advantage of

These meetings to repair the damage and reconnect with her, he tries hard to try to convince him that she is a good person but she he tries hard to prove otherwise and claims that he could have made an effort to keep in touch with her and Charlie reveals that he tried to

But his mom didn't let him do it and he makes Charlie a sandwich but seasons it with some sleeping pills wants him to fall asleep so he can smoke good calm Thomas returns and while Charlie sleeps the thread harasses Well, he suspects that he is hiding something, he pressures him to smoke and this sees So he and tells him that he investigated

And discovered that the church New life already he doesn't have door-to-door missionaries Thomas is cornered and confesses that he is an exadito and that he ran away from home for stealing money from the church and that now he believes that if he saves Charlie he will be able to redeem himself Eli secretly records the entire confession and gives it to him he sends Thomas's parents

The next day Thomas comes back to see and for the last time he tells him what he did to Eli but not upset but grateful since his parents responded by approaching him and letting them know that he was welcome back finally Thomas tells Thomas Charlie, who has already understood everything and that to save himself, he needs to free himself from his

Homosexuality since Alan died for this, he gets angry and reveals that it was his church that caused the death of his partner and the condition in which he finds himself is always repulsed by Charlie and he leaves forever later he and visits Charlie again and that's when Lizzy Mary arrives Charlie hasn't seen his ex-

Wife since their divorce he and Liz reveals that Charlie saved a lot of money and that he offered to give it to her Liz didn't know about this and she gets angry with Charlie because he had assured her that he had no money to seek medical help for her Charlie was selfish since Liz made many

Sacrifices to help him after the argument Liz leaves Mary Charlie they are left alone and remember moments of their lives the special one the afternoon they spent with him at the beach Mary reveals to Charlie that she hasn't let him see his daughter for all these years because she was afraid he would judge her as a bad mother

For how he turned out to be and tells him that he and she is not a good person who treats others badly Mary tries to encourage Charlie to use his money to go to the hospital but he tells her that he thinks he is a good person deep down and that the money was saved strictly

For his daughter so that have a decent life and through tears he tells her that it is the only good thing he has done in his life Mary leaves the house And then the beginning of the end begins Charlie asks for a doorstep But this time the delivery man is left waiting on the stairs because he is very curious to see Charlie's appearance Charlie

Opens the door to pick up the pizza and the delivery man finally manages to see him he looks at him with disgust and leaves the delivery man represents the society that judges and humiliates people like Charlie after being seen Charlie eats compulsively to ease his emotional distress and sends an email to his students

Asking them to ignore the assignments and instead send him an honest letter from the heart this doesn't go down well in college So he fires him Charlie has one last video call with his students he knows he's dying and he does not want to spend his last moments hiding all the time Charlie

Wanted honesty from others but he was not being honest so Charlie decides to practice what he preaches he turns on his camera and for the first time he shows himself to his students some take a picture of him and others laugh it is a fact that people will be mean to someone like Charlie

But he still has faith in people the human quality of a person does not rest on the size of his body but on the size of his heart Charlie ends the video conference encouraging his students to be honest and always act with the heart and then throws the computer against the

Refrigerator Liz knows that Charlie has little left to talk emotionally and finally forgives him later and he appears very upset with him because Charlie changed his homework for writing Moby Dick and the they failed Charlie admits that he was wrong that he hurt others with his decisions that he

Would have liked to have done things differently and that he has done everything possible to make up for it but there is something that is missing before leaving to convince him and that there is love in she and wants to prove it by doing what she couldn't in their first meeting on the verge of death

Charlie asks him to read her the Moby Dick essay it turns out that this is a writing that he did as a child and it was so important to Charlie because it was the only thing he had of her during all these years Eli tearfully begins to read the text and Charlie tries to get up on his own and

Walk towards her Eli had done nothing more than show his aggressive side but seeing his will to walk The father admires himself, it is a great struggle for Charlie but with effort he advances and when he gets closer to him and his daughter shows him love and Charlie finally dies, he rises

Enlightened and returns to the last memory with his daughter in which the one on the beach was happy Charlie finally found Redemption by making amends and being forgiven for all the mistakes he made Charlie ended the final chapter of his life honestly by being authentic

Epressing his feelings and admitting his faults teaches us that by being honest with ourselves and with others we can avoid a lot of suffering and repair it when we have caused it, this film teaches us that despite our

Misakes e should not self-destruct Charlie's incapacitating condition is nothing more than an analogy to guilt which incapacitates sometimes we feel the weight of our failures and think that we do not deserve to be forgiven or loved We are human we make mistakes and we can

Hurt others but it is possible to admit our faults forgive ourselves repair and reconnect honestly with the people we love it will require a lot of effort yes but it is worth it because that is where the