McQueen, who has filmed "Hunger", actually brought some styles of that film into this film, which is a kind of unfavorable anxiety and conflict. Although I knew this was a story about sex addicts before, the beginning of the film did not show the extent of Brandon's sex addiction straightforwardly. I believe that the second-rate director will come up with a sex scene, and then let Brandon go in and out of the adult video store, and then have a continuous shot of him hitting a plane against the raw footage on TV. It is straightforward. I can’t wait to tell us, look, this The guy is very excited. However, this is not McQueen's style. The film begins with a short period of silence, revealing a kind of emptiness and helplessness not knowing what to do next. Especially on the subway, the eye contact between Brandon and a passenger tested the patience of the audience, and this also subtly allowed us to experience Brandon's inner anxiety. The whole film is slow, even dull, because Brandon’s life is like this. He has a good job and performance, lives in a good apartment, and has a nice and chic life that looks bright and drunk. But in fact, Brandon’s life is dull. He doesn’t see any friends. The "friendship" with the boss is more like a relationship of friends with wine and meat. He is full of charm and is enough to attract more people of the opposite sex. Can't naturally talk about a love that makes one feel fulfilled.
If the mental crisis of Brandon’s life is still at a stage of detail suggestion for a period of time at the beginning of the film, then the appearance of his sister will gradually expose this crisis and push it to a climax. At first glance, Brandon and his sister have a close and ambiguous relationship. From the film, the two face each other in the bathroom, showing an unfettered feeling between the two. However, the director here is not trying to express something indecent, but to express a kind of contrast between this beginning and the estrangement between the two behind. We gradually saw that Brandon's loneliness around his sister became stronger. First of all, he has to see with his own eyes the married boss hooking up with his sister until they go to bed, but instead he can only "escape" from his apartment, venting his inner loneliness and embarrassment through exercise. Secondly, he and his sister are in conflict with each other, and incidents such as the relationship between his sister and the boss further aggravated this contradiction, which further caused the two to drift apart. When a person is a stranger to the closest person, then he often falls into the deep sea of loneliness. As a result, we see Brandon sinking deeper and deeper into emptiness and loneliness, although there are often self-pitying words that make "loneliness" a very "literary and artistic" state and expressing his inner and "powerful" state. However, perhaps Zhang Chu’s song is more true: “It’s shameful to be lonely.” Often, a person’s spirit is empty and lonely, so he gradually loses the motivation and ability to communicate with others sincerely, and this time he increases his communication with others. The probability of frustration is high, and this frustration is magnified in the heart, so the heart hurts, people become lazy, people become more "accustomed" to loneliness, but actually can't get used to this kind of loneliness.
As the story progresses, the rhythm of "Shame" also becomes slow and rapid and anxious, which is exactly the same as Brandon's inner rhythm, and the audience can feel Brandon's pain more deeply along with this process. As mentioned earlier, the film did not directly show how "sex addiction" he was at the beginning. But after the conflict between him and his sister broke out, he reacted fiercely, showing all the pornographic video tapes and magazines in his home in a big trash bag, showing his state at once. This slow paving, and then the rhythm of the explosion was extremely shocking. Combining this with the polite boss's cynicism about the pornographic content in his computer, he also revealed his plight and the morbid state of society. Sex, it feels "hot", and this film always makes people feel "cold", Brandon did not show the pleasure that sex brings him, but more of a spiritual emptiness with nowhere to go. . Brandon’s several times of sex did not have the kind of pleasant performance, or the rush on the street; or intertwined with the failed sex of trying to love but unable to love; or facing the sea with a kind of imitation and venting, by the window Unrestrained venting of sex; self-destructive sex until the emptiness is so empty that the bar is provoked and beaten by the bar; there is also the kind of intimacy that looks so cool in a porn movie, and finally leaves him with greater emptiness sex. Brandon always gives people an empty expression like a walking dead after every such sex, which also raises a question to the audience: Is sex just a physical pleasure? Maybe it’s like drinking alcohol. When you’re frustrated, you can drink alcohol alone and with friends in laughter and laughter. Even if you drink the same type of alcohol, the same weight, your pleasure is different. The spirit and the body are always connected, and the emptiness and distress in your heart are always It cannot be released by physical indulgence. Sex is a physiological behavior, an entertainment behavior, and even a way of communication. Brandon’s communication with people and the outside world has problems. After a brief and intense sexual pleasure, it’s still What came was a longer period of frustration and helplessness.
Whether it is good or bad, "Shame" left a special ending. Brandon and his sister, the only possible non-utilitarian relationship around him is about to break. The two brothers and sisters fell into despair at the same time, and both chose a way of self-destruction, but the sister's choice was more extreme and decisive, and that kind of delicate affection finally broke out at a critical moment. When you see Brandon running like a lunatic to make sure his sister is safe, what you can feel at this moment is indeed the most fulfilling moment in Brandon's life. He has something to really miss and care about. Loneliness is relative. On the one hand, no one communicates with you. On the more important one, you don’t think there is anyone in the world worthy of you to care about communication. At this moment, Brandon woke up. At least this moment, he doesn’t. No matter how lonely, my sister will no longer be alone. At the end of the story, it returns to a gentle rhythm, back to the subway, a symbol of regularity and flatness in daily life, but compared with the previous rhythm, but Brandon’s inner anxiety is compared, this time, cloth Langton seemed really calmer. "Shame" is not particularly outstanding in terms of plot, but it has an impressive handling of emotions. Fassbender's performance undoubtedly played a key role in the release of this emotion. Anxiety, or an out-of-control outbreak, both seem to be at the right time and just right.
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