Shame 2011 Directed by Steve McQueen
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
Michael Fassbender Carey Mulligan James Badge Dale Nicole Beharie Alex Manette Hannah Ware Anna Rose Hopkins Elizabeth Masucci Rachel Farrar Loren Omer Lucy Walters Amy Hargreaves Marta Milans Mari-Ange Ramirez Lauren Tyrrell Jake Siciliano Robert Montano Charisse Bellante Carl Low Calamity Chang Deedee Luxe Wenne Alton Davis
Shame - Deseos culpables, 셰임, La honte
95/100
A wailing and desperate cry of anguish and pain constructed within the leering jungle of NYC, Shame isn't so much a study of sexual addiction as it is a tortuous insight into crumbling relationships of the modern world. In Steve McQueen's film (which is possibly his masterpiece), feelings aren't told or even visualized as much as they're already within the details of the frame. Genuine conversation and aching truth make up every speck of grain from the gorgeous 35mm photography, and the result is a work of unpleasant frankness and harrowing sincerity.
Michael Fassbender is the obvious highlight here, and he's just as incredible, engaging, and unrelentingly sad as you'd expect from him in a role such as this,…
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This isn't a film about sex addiction. It's a film about a man torn in half by himself. The addiction is a mere vehicle for an exploration of control, humanity and self destruction.
Fassbender is amazing and easily gives one of the best performances I have seen in a couple of years. He is reprehensible, charming and unbelievably sad. His character, a man desperately running away from himself yet totally dependent on himself, is intriguing. What McQueen is able to do like no other director is to allow us to enter the mind of his characters. He is an observer and that is how he shoots his films,…
Sex addiction is often seen as a rather silly and trivial addiction, one that celebrities wheel out when their infidelities become public knowledge. Yet in Steve McQueen's second feature it is portrayed as potentially serious, debilitating and life destroying as drug or alcohol addiction. The film is as utterly empty as Brandon's own existence and whilst that may sound like a flaw it really isn't. McQueen puts you in his world and gets under the skin of Brandon's hollow life and ambiguous family backstory. It is odd coming out of a film where you feel so little, normally they aim to heighten emotions not numb them, but it is crucial in understanding the character and the world he inhabits for…
I have only seen this film once and I’m not entirely sure I can watch it again but even so I’d say this is one of my favorite films of the 21st century. It really grabs you and shakes you. Yeah
going into this I didn't really know what it was about I just assumed it was about infidelity, but instead I found myself deeply intrigued by this unique and profound portrayal of addiction.
I think Michael Fassbender truly ties the film together and almost every element of filmmaking works through his performance. had it been anyone else trying to pull this off I'm not sure if it would have left the same impact on me. I could really go on and on about this, but I was so immersed with his character that I actually felt so sorry for this man (sorry to this man). those long shots really got me in my feelings
michael fassbender’ın kusana kadar içini dışını gördüğümüzü düşünüyorum. Buna rağmen metro ve şarkı sahnesi hoş. carey mulligan aaah ❤️
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