Bravo to Brendan Fraser and all the cast of the monumental film, The Whale. When the distant daughter challenges The Whale to walk without his assistive device, it made me feel how glaringly inadequate humans are at times made to feel when unable to measure up. Obesity, disability, sexuality — you name it and every one of us falls woefully short at times in society’s eyes. And yet, in our fragility, don’t we also find a power, an ability that catapults us beyond the status quo as a reaction against the trauma of being perceived as inferior? In the end, the whale, who in almost every scene is trying to do something kind, says, “People are incapable of not caring,” which leaves me tearfully optimistic that there is hope for us all.