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]

The point of the movie, Maru, was that our sex-saturated culture is making us incapable of intimacy. I thought the most agonizing scene in the movie was where he sits writhing at the table while Sissy sings "NY NY".

[yakalskovich]

Yes, I do get the point -- I just like to nitpick movies in unexpected places, if you've seen any of my bullet-points-while-watching-this posts...

That said, I thought the most agonising scene was when he was with these two prostitutes or whatever near the end and it was so totally joyless. He doesn't have intimacy, and he doesn't even have fun, he just does it because it's there, sort of thing.

[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.