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]

Every sexual encounter was agonizing.

What about the date with the co-worker and then the inability to have sex with her? that was brilliant!

(And, yes, all of my cousins in NYC have baseball bats)

[yakalskovich]

By the way, was he fired when his boss told him that all sorts of porn were found on his hard disk (while micromanaging his family via skype all the time)? I didn't quite get the nuance at that scene.

And yes, all the sex was dreadful in that movie, as it was supposed to be, but I actually found the part with the two tarts worst. He looked as if he was in terrible pain throughout, simply performing as if by script of an invisible porn movie.