Review of Shame (2011) by Oxana — 23 Aug 2014

I have never been into artistic movies, and this was definitely one of them.

My incentive to watch this to begin with was a free ticket to the movies, nothing else of interest was on, and I kind of liked Michael Fassbender in "X-Men: First Class".

Well, for anyone who likes Fassbender, this had plenty of him - in every sense of the word (lots of naked body parts).

In short, Brandon (Fassbender) is addicted to sex, and his life-style is somewhat disrupted by a visit from his clingy sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan).

I wasn't exactly certain of the past between the two, and what exactly was their problem with each other. It seems Sissy really needed her brother more than he knew, though.

The story took too long to move forward, and in the end it didn't manage to quite explain to me who the people in it were. It felt aimless and a bit lost in all the emotions that felt quite real, but which did not seem to have a purpose since I didn't see beyond them to understand why they were there in the first place.

Not a movie for me, definitely.