Review of Shame

Shame (2011)
2/10
Complacent, Racoleur, Boring, only for Tube Addicts
22 April 2012
This movie is about sex addiction and how miserable it makes you. The point is that the movie itself is miserable too.

The only point of interest is the relationship between brother and sister, but it takes ten minutes out of one hundred. Most of the "non-action" takes place in the Metro, where we are invited to read Fassbender's torments by watching him "non-acting". He plays well, OK, but the scenario is empty, the subject is weak or at best trying to attract voyeurism clients.

Sex scenes are sub-standard, the prostitutes look like fresh turnips and do not bring any heat into the game,and all the commonplaces of the genre are present: Oh my god, the girl I might really like does not give me a hard-on, the girl in the Metro is always in the same carriage, etc etc..

I dumped my DVD. Which happened two or three time maximum since the invention of this media...
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