"Shame" is a misleading title for this story of a sex-addicted businessman and his needy sister. "Obsession" or "Damaged" might be better. Michael Fassbender delivers a perfect portrayal of Brandon Sullivan, consummate sexual player and New York business man whose fixation on sex threatens his job and substitutes for any real relationships. The incredible Carey Mulligan plays sister Sissy, and together we see the product of an upbringing whose horrors we can only imagine. British director/writer Steve McQueen gets it right, and offers a truly unflinching portrait of man spiraling out of control in a city that enables all manner of afflictions.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Shame ****
"Shame" is a misleading title for this story of a sex-addicted businessman and his needy sister. "Obsession" or "Damaged" might be better. Michael Fassbender delivers a perfect portrayal of Brandon Sullivan, consummate sexual player and New York business man whose fixation on sex threatens his job and substitutes for any real relationships. The incredible Carey Mulligan plays sister Sissy, and together we see the product of an upbringing whose horrors we can only imagine. British director/writer Steve McQueen gets it right, and offers a truly unflinching portrait of man spiraling out of control in a city that enables all manner of afflictions.
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