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.
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,…
Review In A Nutshell:
Arguably, Shame finds director Steve McQueen at its peak, a sophomore opus that blends his arthouse sensibilities with commercial accessibility, a striking balance that never favours the latter over the former, neither condescending nor insulting, bolstered by a performance by Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan that never ceases to be striking, constantly soulful in their existence and brimming with stimulation, a bond between siblings that may leave others discomforted, but for others provoked, essential to their characterisation and compelling in their subtleties. Demanding but deeply rewarding, Shame is an unforgettable piece, deliberate in its pacing and casual in its arc, it demonstrates an artistic flourish from McQueen that would seem likely to drift away as he currently finds himself in renowned fame, let us hope he remains true to his roots.
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've never come out of a movie genuinely surprised a character did not fuck their sibling
A interesting film accompanied by a great perfromance from the one and only Michael Fassbender.
O filme não segurou a minha atenção, e é foda algumas partes meio arrastadas. A trilha sonora é muito boa e a atuação do Fassbender também. As cenas finais foram minhas favoritas. Filmes muito subjetivos me incomodam quando exageram. Poderia ser bem melhor, mas acho que retratou bem o drama da situação do personagem.
Fassbender is amazing but to be honest I was dissapointed by his dick cause the way James has been going on about it all week you'd swear it was like a baby's arm holding an apple. Other than that great film was convinced the main character was going to bang his sister, but they didn't go that far.
Candid. Brave. Powerful.
As one of the most honest, powerful films I have ever seen, 'Shame' forces you to face aspects of your own humanity you may be reluctant to acknowledge, and forces you to acknowledge the hypocrisy of holding unfounded judgements upon the flaws of those around us, when we can rarely live up to those standards ourselves.
The film tows the line whereby you never feel apathy or judgement towards any of the characters, just as they're never painted as victims or the author of their own problems. You just see organic, dysfunctional, beautiful, terrible, misunderstood people battling with their own souls to try and stay above the water.
It uses excessive sexual content as a means to…
80/100
While making you feel absolutely hollow after viewing, this film is exceptionally successful in expressing the horrors of sex addiction and the scars of past traumas and the mental health issues accompanying them. While not being as explicit and descriptive as Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac Vol. I and II, this film is arguably more silently emotive. Here, Steve McQueen uses moments of silence and tonal cinematography to relay a similar message.
Michael Fassbender is incredible in this role, so good I was torn about how I feel about him. He is obviously troubled and anyone would feel bad for him, but he is also unable to confront his issues and seems to reject help.
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