Directed by: Steve McQueen
Run time: 101 min
This is a depressing anatomy of loneliness, pain and grief where even the sex scenes will make you flinch and sad. Michael Fassbender really strips down (literally and metaphorically) to show you that meaningless sex is indeed meaningless.
Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30 something employee of a good company that gives him a nice apartment and lifestyle. There is no worries of food shortening or cannot pay daily bills. He lives alone all by himself and somehow the loneliness began to eat him from the inside. But no one can live alone and to kill it he has fall into the downward spiral of casual sex.
In other words he is addicted to sex and deep inside is suffering and no one can help him. Brandon lives as if he is the living corpse, no emotion with wooden expression but deep down inside he wanted a connection. He doesn't love anyone and fears need.
Even when his sister arrived at his loft, Sissy (Carey Mulligan) Brandon's life seem to change a bit. But it just makes Brandon more lonely. You cannot help to sympathize with Brandon's misery and somehow, through the camera angles that sometimes see Brandon from glass or reflection from other surface, the viewers got the idea that it is how Brandon see himself, distorted and unclear.
Shame is the second film from Steve McQueen after the acclaimed Hunger, and it has successfully show raw emotion and good story. Apart from Fassbender, Mulligan also gave a strong performance and in one scene that I think could sum up why does Brandon and Sissy are like that one quote seems to make the viewers think deeply; "We're not bad people. We just come from a bad place."
Run time: 101 min
This is a depressing anatomy of loneliness, pain and grief where even the sex scenes will make you flinch and sad. Michael Fassbender really strips down (literally and metaphorically) to show you that meaningless sex is indeed meaningless.
Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a 30 something employee of a good company that gives him a nice apartment and lifestyle. There is no worries of food shortening or cannot pay daily bills. He lives alone all by himself and somehow the loneliness began to eat him from the inside. But no one can live alone and to kill it he has fall into the downward spiral of casual sex.
In other words he is addicted to sex and deep inside is suffering and no one can help him. Brandon lives as if he is the living corpse, no emotion with wooden expression but deep down inside he wanted a connection. He doesn't love anyone and fears need.
Even when his sister arrived at his loft, Sissy (Carey Mulligan) Brandon's life seem to change a bit. But it just makes Brandon more lonely. You cannot help to sympathize with Brandon's misery and somehow, through the camera angles that sometimes see Brandon from glass or reflection from other surface, the viewers got the idea that it is how Brandon see himself, distorted and unclear.
Shame is the second film from Steve McQueen after the acclaimed Hunger, and it has successfully show raw emotion and good story. Apart from Fassbender, Mulligan also gave a strong performance and in one scene that I think could sum up why does Brandon and Sissy are like that one quote seems to make the viewers think deeply; "We're not bad people. We just come from a bad place."
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