Review of Shame (2011) by Velimir S — 16 Jul 2012
Michael Fassbender goes all out, in artist Steve McQueen's second film, as a man with a sex addiction, unable to find a connection for love or a relationship with sexual desire. Carey Mulligan is his suicidal sister who comes into his life again, disrupting his usual schedule of 'pleasure'.
It's a maddeningly well constructed, yet ambiguous movie, as we the audience are never clear on what kind of trauma the two main leads have had, and also what the future has for possible change or not.
For a movie that contains a lot of straight up fucked up sexuality, it's amazing that you can find some sympathy and empathy for the characters and their mindset. Unless that just means I'm fucked up sexually as well.
.. It's a theme that most people shy away from, and compared to other movies that deal with unusual sexuality, like David Cronenberg movies, "Shame" goes even further in explicitness and makes it more open, seemingly less shameful in a way.
This review of Shame (2011) was written by Velimir S on 16 Jul 2012.
Shame has generally received positive reviews.
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