screen |skr_n| |skrin| |skri_n| noun • a blank, typically white or silver surface on which a photographic image is projected : the world's largest movie screen • movies or television; the motion-picture industry : she's a star of the stage as well as the screen. verb [ trans. ] • protect (someone) from something dangerous or unpleasant • evaluate or analyze (something) for its suitability for a particular purpose or application


Friday, December 16, 2011

Shame

It’s a courageous and unflinching drama of one of the great human taboos; a man is sexually attracted to his sister. Does his attraction to his sister make him a sex addict? Or does the fact that he’s a sex addict make him attracted to his sister? Shame dares to ask forbidden questions, and dares to portray these questions cinematically and visually. The leads, Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, deliver brave and naked performances, eliciting such sympathy that by the final third of the movie you start to wish they would just sleep together and get it over with. The only way this movie could have been more daring and courageous is if the leads weren’t so physically attractive. Otherwise, in a slew of sequels, remakes, and safe historical adaptations, Shame is a truly unique movie. Never sexually unsavory but always trail-blazingly original and refreshingly honest about the complicated sexual kindling that fuels the human condition.

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