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]

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.