Never Cinever

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ In Steve McQueen's next film after his 2008 debut Hunger, Shame follows thirty-something year old Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender), a handsome and successful Irishman living in New York, who lives a seemingly normal life, hiding a debilitating addiction to sex. When his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) crashes his apartment and invades his privacy, Brandon is forced to face his addiction head-on. Spoilers ahead. Work, drink, fuck, sleep. Work, drink, fuck, sleep. Brandon lives in a numbing cycle with no clear out. Just a constant state of repetition as he feeds his addiction through meaningless sex and copious amounts of hardcore pornography, Shame is an erotic movie, but it isn't about sex. It's about self-hatred, disgust, avoidance; Shame . Most films don't want to confront the topic. It's uncomfortable. Objectively, it is, because it's realistic. But Steve McQueen does a fantastic job portraying it as such through the directing and writing, and th...