Not since Joaquin Phoenix’s turn as the Joker has such a great performance been given in such a terrible movie.
Early on, Liz, a nurse by profession, takes Charlie’s blood pressure and tells him he is in a state of congestive heart failure and has, at most, a week to live. Since Charlie obstinately refuses to seek medical help other than his regular visits from Liz, both she and the audience soon come to understand that he has resigned himself to a form of passive suicide, his weapons being not pills or razor blades but the buckets of fried chicken he consumes alone in front of the TV.
, a film I have never forgiven for grossing me out without providing enough meaning or beauty to make the experience worthwhile.has a similar fascination with spectatorship as a form of masochism: To watch Charlie suffer is to suffer along with him, but it is also, in a formulation less flattering to the viewer, a way of allowing him to do the suffering on our behalf, maybe even for our entertainment.
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