On watching 'Shame'

[yakalskovich]

• Does every American with an appartment keep a baseball bat around to hit intruders with?
• Watching him go running is actually the visually most interesting bit yet.
• It does the same non-moving camera thing at times that 'Archipelago' does, but not quite as obnoxiously..
• Oh dear, cocaine. How cliché: ad exec => snorts cocaine. Nobody does that where I work!
• Is there a reason they are mostly wearing grey? Is grey the new black, or at least was it at the time?
• And then, suddenly, everything is meaningfully red...
  

Comments

[paceisthetrick]

And, yeah, coke is HUGE in the exec circles here. My 36-year-old neighbor committed suicide a few years back and the truth came out -- he was essentially bankrupt from his addiction. They even sell it to elementary school kids across the street. We know who they are (not trying to be racist here) because two out-of- the area guys in an expensive SUV with a cell phone in the parking lot are up to no good.

[yakalskovich]

I just think that coke is a bit too cliché, even if it might be big in reality. Reality is unrealistic.

Also, if anybody I ever met in whatever circles here ingested anything illegal, it was marijuana. They need to calm down and relax after being all stressed and wired, not push themselves up artificially. At least the people that I know and/or used to know.

[paceisthetrick]

Well in this culture people work themselves to death and then are expected to play just as hard. The kids tell me (yes, I am completely out of it! LOL) that the best selling drugs in schools are "performance" drugs -- so things that speed you up. I know meth is one of them and I can't think of the names of the others.

[yakalskovich]

But after all that performance, they have to come down or they'll burn out.