"Shame", many people define it as a topical film that embarrassing men, is a topical film that explores sexual addiction/impotence. It is said that the protagonist is deeply involved in sexual intercourse because of consuming pornography, going to prostitutes and buying sex, having one-night stands with people. Addiction, and feel ashamed, and some people literally translate it as "Sex Addicted Man". However, I don't know why, in this movie, Brandon, a New Yorker who grew up in New Jersey, is a corporate white-collar worker walking in and out of Manhattan's skyscraper jungle. I don't see his sexual addiction, nor his sexuality. Incompetence, seeing is his extreme loneliness, and a lonely person is shameful, just like the title of the movie "Shame". Sexual intercourse with strangers is the most primitive and extreme way to resist the loneliness that is incompatible with the surrounding environment, whether in a foreign land or home. Realizing or not realizing, the external loneliness of being without father, mother, home and no room must reflect the extreme loneliness in his heart. He has entered many people's bodies, but no one can enter his heart.
Shame, a New York story. Yes, if you remove the single theme of sex addicts, this is a New York story. As my sister sang in the bar, New York, New York is the biggest protagonist behind this weird love story. "a city that doesn't sleep" is the lyrics of the song New York, New York sung by my sister Sissy in the bar. It tells the New York dream of a homeless person, a wandering, wandering wanderer, and finally waking up in New York Come, start over, and climb to the top of the dream. Brandon tried to make girlfriends, and even sneaked out of the office with his favorite colleagues to make out to the nearest hotel under the urge of pleasure, but he was usually overly sexual, but he was never able to have sex with people he knew. But Brandon was able to lie down next to the glass curtain wall of a high-rise hotel room with a call girl and complete an intense sexual encounter. Unable to complete sex based on trust and intimacy, but fighting with prostitutes who know how to exchange money, this is probably the best explanation for the intimacy between people in New York City's exchange law, so Brandon The scene of making love with a prostitute lying on the floor-to-ceiling glass windows of a tall building (he needs someone to affirm him) happens to be a powerful portrayal of the song Sissy sings: Now, the homeless has finally climbed to the top of the city, realizing The New York dream in his wandering career, but in the realization of this dream, his body, life and will have also been replaced by the city's own survival law.
New York, with its ubiquitous skyscrapers, and the glass-and-steel forest of all these skyscrapers, Brandon is more of a man when the body and will of man are tightly locked in the ruthless way of living in the city. This species has acquiesced to the city's survival laws, voluntarily obliterating his own needs for emotion, history, identity, connection and feeling (the film does not explain the past of the two brothers and sisters), his indifference, sex addiction, love incompetence, all These obstacles and problems are actually people's self-protection in the face of environmental constraints. And sister Sissy is just the opposite. What she needs is precisely the appeal to all these obliterated people. She puts love from others, past history and memory, family connection, brother's identity, and exchange of words. All the things deep in the black hole of memory were brought back. So she became Brandon's burden.
"Shame", the name of the movie is shame, and the essence of shame is that one's own identity is not recognized. And this sense of shame of not being recognized is not actually Brandon's cognition of his own sexual addiction, but his excessive sexual desire has become the background of the existence of a wider era. That is to say, the role of Brandon itself, It is the symptom of the age and environment in which he lives. Brandon's rambling about his body, his escapism from interpersonal relationships, the extravagant addictive sex he hollowed out, the shame he could neither escape nor escape from his own sex addiction, and those who were desolate and confused all day long and couldn't find him. How similar the location of the city's rogue people is. Every film, when the characters in its stories are just a typical symptom of socialization, its exploration of human nature and the possibility of life will inevitably be limited by flattening and simplification. For example, "Shame" may only be based on sexuality. Addiction is a metaphor.
There are probably thousands of people on New York's rickety subway trains, Shame.
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