"Shame" tells a story that is a bit beyond imagination but seems extremely normal. Brandon, a white-collar worker who is super normal on the surface and has excellent internal and external conditions, is privately tortured by the intense desire for sex and continues to indulge and struggle. The overall atmosphere of the film is quite grim, coupled with the extensive use of long shots and blank spaces, as well as the somewhat sad soundtrack, while appearing more empty and depressing, the emotional tone of loneliness, melancholy, entanglement and pain in the characters in the film is reflected. It also played a role in setting off. In terms of the film's narrative technique, the director did not judge or discuss it subjectively like previous films of the same type, or highlighted his personal views through the setting of certain plots and details, but stood in a relatively objective position. From the point of view, it is logical and logical to present an extremely realistic life state, and give the audience a wider space to judge and think.
When watching this movie, of course, the focus of attention must be on Fassbender. Many people think that it is to see how he is unable to extricate himself under the erosion of sexual desire and completely interpret the process of depravity, wantonly seeking pleasure, watching A In the eyes of ordinary people, they may think that Brandon is a typical dirty and low-level person, or has a certain degree of psychological disorder and mental abnormality. But often we are often confused by some one-sided phenomena and superficial thoughts, just like many people will completely focus on the process of Brandon's burning with preconceived feeling at first, and completely ignore the sadness hidden behind. The reason and the result, the film is not without answers, the appearance of Brandon's sister Sissi is an important turning point.
Before Sissi appeared, Brandon acted as a dutiful clerk and devoted himself to the carnival of sexual desire without any scruples. Caused a huge emotional conflict, breaking his regular life mode. There is a section in the film where Qian Qian and her married boss are having a relationship under her own matchmaking, and Brandon, who is restless, begins to run hard. There are two important reasons for such an excited and tangled performance. One is the intertwining of sexual desire and inner guilt, and the other is the shame after finding his own shadow in his sister and magnifying his hypocritical and low-level side. Later, Sissi discovered Brandon's secret inadvertently. Brandon, who was deeply stimulated, began to try to change and resist, but all turned into powerless struggles. Sexual desire was like an inescapable shackle and abyss, which made him more and more trapped. the deeper.
The emotional tears left by Brandon when listening to Qian Qian sing, and the sentence Qian Qian said later: "We are not bad people, but the living environment is not good." The embodiment of these two details seems to indicate the cause The reason for Langdon's sexual addiction is that in the materialistic world, everything seems to be at your fingertips and easy, coupled with social progress and the mediocrity and pressure of the living environment, the desire for stimulation, freshness and passion begins to expand continuously. To make up for the emptiness and loneliness of one's heart, the social atmosphere of intrigue, confusion and hesitation began to spread like a virus, and eventually formed a common disease, and the responsibility that is difficult to give up and the life of the living. The price, these inescapable burdens, turns a seemingly free life into a cage that is imprisoned, making people have to use some extreme means and ways to satisfy themselves and seek happiness and liberation. Brandon is a A typical example of suffering.
The result will only be more pain and despair, and physical and mental exhaustion after being tortured by life. In fact, it is not difficult to see from Brandon's body his desire for family and love, but it has become a hopeless luxury. Qian Qian's care and company will only add more shame and negative emotions to him. Let him continue to scold and scold her as a kind of vent and resistance to himself. In the face of true love, Invincible Iron King instantly turned into a soft persimmon who couldn't lift himself up. He was so ashamed that he seemed to have lost his lover's motivation and qualifications. The loss made Brandon fall into a more depraved and crazy situation, and more unbridled self-indulgence. Until Sissi's suicide, Brandon, who was awake under the rain, fell to his knees and cried bitterly, and the constantly suppressed emotions finally broke out. Finally, facing the familiar scene, the speeding subway, the charming woman, Brandon hesitated.
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