His younger sister ( the script indicates she’s about 5 years younger), Sissy (Carey Mulligan), who can never get her life together, moves in with him when she has nowhere else to go, slowly unraveling his carefully fabricated life. He avoids intimacy and relationships, but compulsively consumes porn and pursues anonymous sex with one night stands and prostitutes. I can appreciate it, even if I, personally, prefer my movies a little lighter, and my incest ships with a little less screaming.īrandon Sullivan (played by Michael Fassbender) is a successful businessman in New York. But it’s beautiful, and haunting, and somehow authentic, even if the characters are extremes. But I am deeply honored by your interest and your loyalty to this blog. I do have ongoing projects (they’ve been started!), some of them have been ongoing since Christmas time, and I’m not just talking about my growing to-do list, but nothing is near ready to publish. Though, as you can see, this is still quite a lengthy entry.) For those of you growing annoyed at my fruitless talk about ongoing projects, I apologize. (Especially since it’s just a movie and not a TV show and a much less daunting task. There’s demand and then there’s DEMAND, and I just couldn’t deny you all any longer. If the “strange and interesting relationship” (to quote director Steven McQueen) had taken me entirely by surprise I might have written an excited entry that very night, but as it was, I put the movie away for another day – and that day is today! Not because it was bad, but because it was not what I was expecting and not what I had been hoping for. It’s about the utter despair it can’t conceal”.) So I was disappointed. (As one reviewer pointed out, erotica is “all about creating a fantasy of perfection and control” Shame, on the other hand, is about “weakness and compulsion. Furthermore, this movie is a very gritty, unglamorized look at sex addiction (though it’s more of a character study than an “issue” film), and is most thoroughly unsexy and unerotic. Fassbender does not, in fact, his sister. If you’ve seen the movie then you know that sadly that’s not the case. I was hoping, and a part of me actually thought, that the sex addiction was more of a supporting player in the incest storyline, and that the titular “shame” was related to the incest. My hopes for incest were high – and not just intentional subtext, but actual consummation. Skimming online I saw someone ask the question that was on my mind: “So does Fassbender his sister or what?” In my mind it was worded slightly differently, but the gist was the same. This might be a shame-free blog but I do not lead a shame-free life, so I decided against seeing such a film (especially one with an NC-17 rating) in theaters and EAGERLY anticipated its release for home viewing. I try to keep track of all the new movies that come out into movie theaters (I’m always refining my methods, so I do and have missed things), and for obvious reasons a movie about a sex addict whose life is interrupted when his sister moves in with him caught my attention. You wanted it and it’s here: I’m finally writing about Shame.īut first: the backstory you don’t care about:
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