Although the film is disturbing, it is unforgettable.
Steve McQueen proved himself to be an excellent filmmaker with the second work, and his control in the film lasted from the beginning to the end. The audience can almost feel blood, semen and tears flowing on the screen.
The film seems to be wide-ranging, but it actually conveys a very conservative concept of sex. The presentation of sexual desire in the image is by no means hot and sultry, but cold and cold. Even though the protagonist has been trading desires, he can only vent and not be intoxicated. His mechanical treatment of sex is more like a Puritan-style temperance ritual. Under the surface of indulgence, there is a strong temperament of abstinence-this is the keynote of the whole film, ashamed of sex, ashamed of the more empty and numb soul after venting.
Sexual desire is the most difficult beast to feed. It is never satisfied and the easiest to be satisfied. It is fleeting and the most eternal. "Shame" does not evaluate it as a positive energy, but clearly states that it is a human deficiency-sex addicts are physically happy, but mentally torment themselves, and the pain of separation of spirit and body is difficult for others to experience. But in fact, sexual desire is just the beast that is deeply suppressed and disciplined in everyone's heart. "Shame" releases it from the cage, so that people can irresistibly face the gains and losses of themselves and their desires.
