"Shame" is the first work of "Hunger" director Steve McQueen after his blockbuster debut in three years. Three years later, Fassbender, the actor in the first work, has grown from a small actor to a new generation of acting, and he is packed with "X-Men: The First" and has truly entered the mainstream commercial film's vision. However, what remains unchanged is that Mr. Fassbender did not start to begrudge his body because of this.
The movie tells the story of a young and promising Brandon living in New York. As a bachelor, he lacks nothing but a girlfriend with a regular relationship. At that time, he was full of desires, but he could only satisfy himself with pornographic movies, looking for prostitutes and one-night stands. One day, Brandon's sister Sissy came to his house to stay temporarily. This hearty and easily collapsed girl had her own problems. The countless scars on her arm suggested a lot of unbearable past. One day, he met a black girl in the company, and the relationship between the two began, but it ended hastily because of the first weakness in the bed-and once he recruited a prostitute who he didn’t know and had no emotional support, he Get up like a wolf like a tiger. Michael Fassbender plays exactly this poor Brandon, while the British lady Kerry Mulligan plays his sister Sissy. Both of them have made major sacrifices in the film: Fassbender was at the beginning of the film. A few fronts were completely nude, and Kerry Mulligan completely broke the image of the lady. One shot of her appearance was all three points exposed, and she did not pity this shy skin at all.
This is a movie that keeps asking questions. Why doesn't Brandon answer Sissy's calls? Why do you keep having sex with strange women in the film (even walking into a gay bar when the seduction is unsuccessful)? Why once he has an affection with a woman, he can't have passion with her? Director Steve McQueen started to answer one by one: Brandon was angry with Sissy because she had to clean up the mess every time; Brandon proved his sense of existence during sex; Brandon seemed to have intimate phobia... Director McQueen likes to use the body to make a fuss. His debut work "Hunger" pushes the body to an extreme: when a person is without any food, he can re-examine himself; and this time, it is another extreme, when the body What have we lost in a situation full of joy?
The body is politics. "Hunger" is a political film that focuses on the story of the Metz prison where the IRA is being held. It is about the struggle between faith, body and politics. However, in McQueen's view, his second work "Shame" is also a politically-related movie, but abandoning the background of iron-fisted politics, the politics of a peaceful society is related to the relationship between people-how are we? We can get intimacy under the premise of getting to know ourselves. Why don't we mess up the relationship between him and him, him and him, and her and her when we can't get ourselves in the situation?
This is really a problem. Brandon in the movie was constantly troubled by this problem. His addiction to strange sex under his intimate phobia eventually led to Sissy's suicide indirectly. "He has worked very hard, but there is nothing he can do." McQueen made no secret of his love for the role of Brandon. In his opinion, this role is anyone who often appears in our lives. "We live in an addictive world," said the film's screenwriter. If we quit the addiction, what will happen-McQueen echoed before and after, let a married woman whom Brandon had been peeking in the subway voluntarily throw her arms at him at the end of the movie, the last one The camera stopped abruptly on his helpless and tired eyes. This ending seems to show the integrity of the film, but it loses the last point of sharpness. Before this shot, the shots of Sissy falling in a pool of blood and Brandon falling to the ground crying in the heavy rain can add power to the movie, but unfortunately , The narration was still alive, and it turned into endless chatter.
"My last work took place in prison. They were seeking freedom. The protagonist of this film was not in prison, but he lost his freedom."-Steve McQueen interpreted his movie in one sentence.
Freedom is a problem, relationship is a problem, body is a problem, intimacy is a problem, and the movie itself is also a problem...
View more about Shame reviews
