Movie Name:- Shame

Release Date:- 2 December 2011

Directed By:- Steve McQueen

Produced By:- Iain Canning, Emile Sherman

Category / Genres:- Drama

Run Time:- 101 Minutes

IMDB Rating:- 7.9

Star Cast:- Michael Fassbender, Lucy Walters, Mari-Ange Ramirez, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Alex Manette, Hannah Ware, Elizabeth Masucci, Rachel Farrar, Loren Omer, Lauren Tyrrell, Marta Milans, Jake Richard Siciliano, Robert Montano, Charisse Bellante

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Shame Movie Story Line:- After the critically acclaimed 2008 film, ‘Hunger’, Steve McQueen once again explores the controversial terrains of sex-centered drama, in Shame, which is an adult movie that raises the benchmark of this otherwise down-rated genre. The movie centers on a sex-addict, Brandon, played by Michael Fassbender, marking the actor’s second collaboration with McQueen, after their first film together, ‘Hunger’. Brought up in Manhattan, Brandon has always had it easy, when it came to finding women to fulfill his sexual desires. His handsome looks and charming personality worked in his favor, not leaving much else for him to do. However, the problem is that this man does not seem to be satisfied, no matter how much he gets. One moment he’s laying the blonde bimbo he met at the club, and the next, he’s masturbating in a desperate attempt to fulfill his next sexual urge. His house is a hub of porn stash, and sex seems to be all that is on his mind. Watch Shame online to see what happens, when his younger sister, Sissy, played by Carey Mulligan, moves in to live with him. Brandon’s fantasies begin to run out of control, and his sister’s devil-may-care attitude just makes things more difficult for him. The film explores the most hidden aspects of the human mind, showing how catastrophic the results of a mind let lose can be. The movie has earned Fassbender the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival, and has received a positive response from film critics, earning a Metacritic score of 94.

Shame Movie Review:- Shame is a movie about a New York man, Brandon, (the amazing and underrated Michael Fassbender) trying to live a normal life while keeping his sex life in control. Things become more difficult when Brandon's sister (the great, busy, and beautiful Carey Mulligan) shows up and he is not sure how to fit her in and deal with her in his life during this problem. Shame talks about sex and addiction and how it affects us and the one's we love. Sex addiction is a new subject and a timely one. It is a disorder that is only now being recognized and talked about and this film will only fuel the conversation. Is it really an addiction or the way of man? Is it really a quest for sex or is it the need for need itself? Is sex an emotional weapon, anchor, saviour, or can it be used for all. Are multiple sexual partners completely void of all love or is it the search for it? All of these questions asked and all themes in Shame.

Sex is always a tricky subject even in conversation because it is so subjective. What is something to one person may not be to another, or right and wrong. Shame knows exactly what it is hits the mark beautifully. Mcqueen and Fassbender again make a perfect team, one knowing what he wants to make and the other having the means to transfer that vision. The sex is full frontal, in your face, sometimes passionate and sometimes void of love but it is never gratuitous. It is real.

I believe this movie is so great because of the team and cast putting it together. Any subject can be attempted and I am happy this particular movie and subject matter has the crew that it does. Shame is raw and beautifully artistic without being pretentious. Steve McQueen is the director of Shame and he has only ever had one other directing gig. That movie was Hunger from 2008. Michael Fassbender was also the star in this movie. It was an incredibly powerful movie and an incredible power performance. Steve Mcqueen was a first time director who instantly found his voice in Hunger. The movie shows the IRA in the famous Maze prison and the horrific mistreatment of its prisoners. The movie is elegant, beautiful, touching, sad, and draws you in completely while it is simultaneously gruesome, disgusting, filthy, and horrific. The movie shows the awful things done to them and the disgusting ways they protested until the final half of the film which results in a hunger strike. The movie is completely character driven, yet at the same time has such a artful and passionate voice it becomes more than the characters themselves. Michael Fassbender had one of the best performances of his career, the year, and all time. He had to lose unhealthy amounts of weight for the film. Fass had to show the pain and belief in what he was doing for long scenes without talking, and also had to know enormously lengthy scenes in a different accent. There is a scene with Fass and a priest where they talk as friends about the planned hunger strike. It is about twelve minutes long. A 12 minute long scene with no cut ( if they made a mistake you would have to restart the entire scene) and constant dialogue full of wit and difficult prose. It is the most impressive scenes I have ever seen in a movie. The Academy Awards left Hunger, Mcqueen, and Fassbender unfairly out of the Oscar race. There has been Oscar buzz humming around Shame and I am hoping the Academy doesn't drop the golden statue on this one.

Directors who write and direct their movies have a certain style. You can always know their work because they write in their own way and direct whatever they imagine. Directors like Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), the Coen Brothers (Fargo), and Ritchie (RocknRolla) have a noticeable fashion to their movies. A person could identify one of their movies by watching it without seeing the credits or knowing beforehand. There are certain directors who are amazing and can find a style when they don't write the screenplay, something I myself find just as impressive as writing themselves. Spielberg (Munich), Fincher (The Social Network), Mann (Collateral, and Scorsese (Taxi Driver) are all directors in my mind that have their own recognizable style in all movies. They are able to find a voice regardless of who wrote it and when. Steve Mcqueen I believe is a director who does both. He has co written both Hunger and Shame with different writing partners. Mcqueen has scripts written and he helps to work on it with them to find the best way to get his voice across. Stevey wants a hand in the screenplay and the other writers trust him even with a lack of proved experience.