The film goes beyond just depicting one aspect of the life of a morbidly obese man. As the audience watches Charlie, the main character who helplessly chose to live a morbidly obese life, we are compelled to reflect on what it means for ourselves to rise from the ground as we live in a gravitational field. Ultimately, this film is in line with director Darren Arnofsky's previous masterpiece, . While the Oedipus complex runs through both films, this film goes one step further than to face head-on the theme of "swollen foot," which is the original meaning of Oedipus. Through this move, we realize the essence of the Oedipus complex-something more fundamental than castration anxiety-something that we have been missing.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10774550 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5765/jkacap.230074 | DOI Listing |
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