The film "Shame": reviews and reviews

The drama "Shame" of British filmmaker Stephen McQueen won the ardent love of critics, received an impressive number of flattering reviews and awards, including four prizes at the Venice Film Festival. After the release of a wide rental picture of the mill is the subject of public attention. She already reacted not so unequivocally to the film "Shame". Reviews of moviegoers, however, are mostly positive. However, among the enthusiasm and admiration slips a lot of negative comments, full of misunderstanding and bewilderment.

The plot of the film is simple, if not simple, which, however, is compensated by the charismatic game of Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Their characters created a serious conflict in the midst of naturalistic sexual scenes, impressive New York backdrops and the general monotony of the script of the film "Shame." The film, reviews (the plot gave many reasons for discussion) and reviews we will analyze below.

The plot of the film "Shame"

Hero Fassbender Brandon - a successful resident of Manhattan, whose appearance to the indecency is attractive. In addition, he is simply an example of respectability. However, there is in him a restrained inexpressiveness, detachment in the eye, which from the first frames hint at some flaws in his personality.

The man shows an icy indifference to everything except for sex, which is the only stimulus for his existence, destroying on the root any emotionality and healthy interest in anything other than sexual intercourse.

The meaning of the life of a full-time New Yorker became pornoroliki from the Internet, sex chats, prostitutes, disposable women and constant masturbation. However, Brandon does not see this as a problem until his hysterical sister breaks into the hero's apartment, whose frustration and impulsiveness breaks the habitual way of his life, causing the man aggression, disgust and deep shame.

The ingenious game of Michael Fassbender

The inner emptiness of Brandon Michael Fassbender conveyed masterfully. You feel it physically. She invisibly pierces from beginning to end the whole film "Shame". Reviews of the audience about his game are extremely enthusiastic, because it sets the tone for the picture. Yes, and critics are not without justification say that the role of a mature man suffering from satyriasis - the best work Fassbender in his entire career.

The staggering movements of Brandon, his words, which he seems to hard to squeeze out of himself, the expressionless look and emotional sterility of the hero make you feel uncomfortable, as if in a strange world in which there is no place for anything human.

Brandon is not off balance. The boss can find gigabytes of porn on his work computer, and his sister - calling on the phone, appealing to his brotherly feelings, he will treat this coldly, and his eyes will light up only from the anticipation of a new one-time communication. However, the arrival of Sissi will bring into his life a real chaos, as in the whole film "Shame."

Actors and responses: Cary Mulligan in the role of Sissi

Emotional jazz singer with suicidal tendencies breaks into the bathroom when Brandon is engaged in masturbation, becomes a witness of his sex games in a chat room and, to top it off, leads his brother's brother to his brother's apartment, with whom he surrenders to sexual pleasures.

Together with deliberate arrogance and promiscuity in behavior, Sissi demonstrates sensitivity and vulnerability. Attempts to reach Brandon, as well as to lovers, suffer a fiasco, exposing the viewer's soul, defenseless and all rejected. Sissi is woven of contradictions, like the song New York, New York, which in her performance has turned paradoxically from a clockwork into a sad ballad. The combination of monstrous tactlessness and unbridledness with rejected sincerity naturally awaken a pity from the viewer or a disgusting disgust combined with indignation.

Sissy is the true antipode of Brandon. And Carey Mulligan performed this role soundly, as evidenced by the prize she received at the Hollywood Film Festival for her best supporting role. Sissi brought a considerable amount of emotionality to the film "Shame". Reviews about the game actors, however, are unequal. On Mulligan, the audience reacted rather restrainedly, and the real laurels go to Fassbender.

Ambiguous relationship between the characters

The main stumbling block in the analysis of the film is the painful relationship between Sissi and Brandon, which make the real mystery the film "Shame." Reviews and reviews are full of assumptions. As critics say, Sissi is not only a burden to her brother, but also a woman with whom Brandon basically can not do anything, so she becomes an extra element in his life.

The audience is indignant at the behavior of the protagonist, then they condemn his sister, and some even catch in their relationship the notes of incest. Too weird and ambiguous are the scenes when Sissi appears before Brandon naked, gets to him in bed or fights with a nude brother on the couch. Her some viewers consider an erotomaniac, and the conflict between heroes is attributed to the perverse jealousy of Brandon.

However, this idea seems to many to be awkward. Each person sees painful relationships of heroes in his own way. After all, the conflict is based on how an individual perceives the film "Shame". Reviews vary in relation to the main problem of Brandon.

Dependency or lifestyle?

The dependence on the main character's sex became controversial. Many people ask themselves, is he really sick? Perhaps, the lifestyle of Brandon - a commonplace in modern society, which is simply not accepted to declare openly? This question confronts the viewer with the film "Shame" (film, 2011). Feedback, however, suggests that the majority perceive his behavior as a sexual pathology, which should at least be treated by a specialist.

The appearance on the stage of Sissi leads him to realize his own defectiveness and the need for change. However, the first few years of relations with a colleague from the work of Marianne only aggravate the situation, because Brandon's organism refuses him, as soon as feelings appear on the horizon. The failed affinity pushes him back, leading the hero to a real emotional crisis.

The problem of dependence of this kind makes the film "Shame" non-trivial. Comments moviegoers put it on a par with the notorious film "Requiem for a Dream." Dependence, however, like despair, is a unifying factor for them. For some, the needle, for others, sex is the basis for total degradation of the individual.

Erotic Bacchanalia

Stephen McQueen filled the film with an impressive number of sexual scenes. However, endless sexual intercourse, masturbation, naked genitals, contrary to expectations, did not cause much resentment, indignation and criticism of the director, boldly demonstrating soft-porn on the screens. Naturalism, as the audience notes, harmoniously fits into the film "Shame". Reviews kinomanov extremely tolerant, perhaps, because the original eroticism of Brandon looks like a pathology. In the context of the problem of the main character, sex itself becomes asexual, painful, cold, repulsive. In the film of Steve McQueen, he is called to cause shame, although removed with a clear aesthetics.

Inexcitedness

The object of heated discussions was the understatement that permeates the film "Shame". Description and feedback about him eloquently hint at the fact that for the viewer much remains unclear and vague.

In the phrases of the heroes, there are only hints that encourage thinking and guessing. The lack of clear explanations and the dumb confusion of the conflict alarms and irritates many moviegoers, provoking negative feedback. The picture of McQueen is reproached for lack of depth, idea, global design.

Many people ask themselves: why film such a movie? However, if for some this film is an empty story about a sexually anxious clerk and his stupid negligent sister, then for others - a catalyst of assumptions and a ground for reflection.

The very woman

The image of the same woman with a wedding ring on her finger, which Brandon meets in the car at the beginning and at the end of the film "Shame" (film, 2011), will become the object of all kinds of fantasies.

Reviews about it are full of conjectures. The image is deliberately symbolic, and this viewer will have to analyze, as a whole and the whole film, independently. Innocence at the beginning and blatant vulgarity at the end are interpreted in different ways. For some, the image of a woman in the metro is a reflection of the changes in Brandon's personality, for others - part of the entourage created by McQueen.

The profound changes in the protagonist are also very controversial. Everyone will perceive the film "Shame" in their own way. Reviews, reviews of the creation of a British filmmaker make you perceive a film full of mysteries, like a clean board (tabula rasa), on which an attentive viewer will write what his imagination dictates.

Finally

"Shame" - these are questions without answers that few will like. The drama, in fact, is bordered by an art house, which certainly indicates that it is unlikely to be of interest to the general public. Inadequate, depressive atmosphere, monotonous course of events irritates many. However, after shooting the film "Shame", credit (testimonials to confirm this), the confidence of fans of non-standard films, Stephen McQueen still justified.