But I want to put aside these for the time being and tell the story itself, because "Shame" has a very good script before all these gimmicks.
Steve McQueen has spared no effort from the beginning of the film to try to portray the actor Brandon as a seemingly abnormal and "perverted" social alien. On the surface, Brandon has a high-end apartment and a stable and decent job, but he is always trying to restrain his inner sexual desire. This kind of role that suppresses and hides the "perverted" side of his heart in social interaction is easily reminiscent of Bell's "American Psychiatric". The two roles and even the two movies have a certain degree in common. Brandon in "Dishonored" doesn't kill and dismember people in the middle of the night, he just rushes into the office toilet to masturbate when he "can't help", he will indulge in various pornographic websites and videos when he is at home alone, he will hire prostitutes and even hook up on the street Women come to satisfy desires. "Sex addict" may be the first word that jumped into the minds of the audience. In the first part of the film, Steve McQueen used such a negative perspective to "smear" the role of Brandon first. The meaning of suppression.
However, with the appearance of the roles of Metro Girl, Sissy, and Brandon's boss, the audience will gradually discover that Brandon is actually the most "normal" role. The film then began to penetrate into Brandon's heart, and we immediately discovered that he did not enjoy these sex, more of a trapped state. He himself realized that the excessive sexual desire in his body was abnormal or even pathological, so even though he could not control it, he extremely hated such desire and used it as a shame. For example, after Sissy went to bed with his married boss, he became disgusted with sex and threw away all the pornographic magazines, DVDs and even laptops in his home in a rage, and went to make an appointment with the secretary the next day. Similarly, the scene of sex with a black secretary later revealed this. Brandon really had a good impression of the secretary, so he couldn't accept the "shame" behavior with her, so he could only choose to hire prostitutes to solve his sexual desire. From this we discovered that Brandon has always been struggling in this abyss of shame. However, in contrast to other roles, people like Brandon’s boss have long been lost in the desires of the material society. They no longer care about wantonly pursuit of pleasure and exposing desires, but at the same time they have lost the most important emotional ability of people. Brandon is more like being on the edge of the abyss, struggling to escape, and when he hears the song about New York, he inadvertently shed tears, because in the film, New York is the biggest abyss.
At the end of the film, Brandon met the married coquettish woman again on the subway. Unlike his previous expression of desire, this time he was full of disgust, but still seemed to be conflicted and struggling. The film was like this when the subway door opened. Stopped abruptly.
Uncle Fa showed his hair in less than a minute after the beginning of the movie, his back was exposed in less than two minutes, and the bird was exposed in less than three minutes + his whole body was exposed in 360°. However, his most shocking performance in the film was not such boldness. Nudity, but the 3P scene. Just a few seconds before he was about to spray, Uncle Fa shouted at the pain of struggle and helplessness with a silent expression, and his pain broke the bank at the moment of spraying. A love scene can make people cry. This is not only because of Uncle Fa’s best performance of the year, but also because of Steve McQueen’s excellent directing. He made the sex scenes feel like a crime. Anxious, and the opening and the subway passages near the end of the film made me determined to five-star praise. The wonderful editing allows the audience to shuttle between the disrupted timelines, and the shocking soundtrack highlights the tragic atmosphere. These two shows The drama is full of emotions and it is really impressive. And Kerry Mulligan also changed her previous screen image, and her jaw dropped as soon as she debuted, but her role was a bit weak compared to Uncle Fa, which is really a pity.
In fact, the film is not as "exposed" as in the legend, at least Uncle Fa only showed two shots at the beginning of the film, and Miss Carey only showed one shot. But a lot of sex scenes can still make the audience's heart beat faster, and when the actor walks into the Gay Pub, I instantly become High...
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