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The movie is based on a theatrical play of the same name written by Samuel D. Hunter. Hunter also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation.

The movie takes place in Moscow, Idaho. The state is briefly mentioned when Liz and Thomas are talking and the city can be seen in Ellie's Facebook posts.

The movie takes place in early 2016. Charlie and Liz watch the news where they are discussing the 2016 Republican presidential primary. The 2016 Idaho Republican primary occurred on March 8th, so the movie is sometime shortly before then. Furthermore, Ellie is seen using an older generation of iPhone than is typical in 2022.

Aspect ratios and framings, blockings, angles, et cetera, are chosen by good directors as a form of creative expression. Whilst one would have to ask Aronofsky why he chose a 4:3 ratio to get the right answer, we can speculate here for now.

This author has never been obese to the degree of Charlie, but he is morbidly obese. It changes the way one sees and interacts with the world. Physical tasks such as walking uphill or downhill are harder because large amounts of stomach fat reduce lung capacity. The 4:3 aspect ratio could be a way of expressing how Charlie's world has been reduced to nearly nothing by his obesity.

Also worth noting is that the 4:3 aspect ratio rarely allows for more than one person to be in a close-up, or two people to be in a medium frame. This furthers the sense of isolation Charlie feels as a result of his obesity.

It could simply be that Aronofsky decided he liked the aspect ratio and felt he wanted to use it. As this author said, without asking him directly, it is hard to know the reason.

Many of our beliefs about obesity, on top of being cruel, have precious little basis in fact.

There is no way a Human can become this obese by overeating alone. The stomach would start to reject food, even to the point of causing vomiting after a certain amount of calories or specific foods have been consumed. People able to run four minute miles have reported pain, nausea, and cramping when attempting to eat foods that their bodies have grown intolerant of.

Ironically, the Human body remembers past starvation and makes a note of it for the future. This is because Humans evolved into their present form with consistent conditions of harvests alternating between feast and famine. Humans of the "first world" have only been in a state of relative food security for the past hundred and twenty years, give or take. As a point of comparison, the first Homo sapiens diverged from their ancestor species approximately 300,000 years ago. The Human digestive system has not evolved the ability to discern whether starvation is voluntary, aka a diet, or involuntary. Thus, dieting changes the point at which the Human body stores food as fat for future use, causing more of the food to become fat than be consumed for present use. Thus, Charlie going on radical diets in the early phases of his obesity would have made the problem worse, not better.

It is extremely likely that Charlie suffers from a medical problem that has made, and makes it, more difficult for him to lose weight. Ironically, diabetes, a condition often blamed on obesity, makes it harder to lose weight (not to mention the balance of evidence is tipping heavily in favour of all forms of diabetes being autoimmune disorders). Many medications used to treat psychiatric disorders can accelerate weight gain. Lack of sleep can cause weight gain. There are illnesses such as Cushing's Disease that cause weight gain. Because of American healthcare and America's Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH, look it up), determining the exact cause of Charlie's obesity would be an expensive endeavour, costing more than the money he tells his daughter he has saved up.

Regardless of what has caused Charlie's obesity, it would take intense, prolonged, and expensive medical intervention to save his life. Whilst all deaths are inevitable, Charlie is one of the few people on Earth that a doctor can tell "you will probably die tomorrow".

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