No Shame In Seeing This Film.

'Shame'

Michael Fassbender has been on a quick rise to success, since his memorable as the English gent Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds'. Gathering a lot of fans on the way, with his brilliant versatile acting. Here he has teamed up again with Steve Mcqueen, Artist turned Director on his second film. I haven't seen there first film 'Hunger', but will hunt down a copy now after seeing this. But be warned this is not the best film to take the parents too.

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) lives in New York, where he has a successful job and nice apartment, but he has a serious addiction to sex, which leads his life. His sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) shows up unannounced to stay with him, this disrupts his sexual addiction, and leads to him and her having a lot of tension. His addiction starts to effect all aspects of his life and gets him to start asking questions of himself.

Fassbender is magnificent, he is a born lead actor, with his sense of taking a character in and making them painfully real. He is quite infectious, and the hype is justified for his part. Steve Mcqueen has an eye for some lovely shot scenes, when Brandon is on the tube and he is passes glance to a young lady, then she gets off and he follows in desperation to get to her, but then loses her, also the scene where Sissy sings 'New York, New York' in a lounge club is quite beautiful. The music score is brilliant and placed very well.

This isn't for the faint of heart at all, with a lot of explicit scenes and very explicit language at one point. The one thing is, we don't get to find out a bit more of Brandon and Sissy's past, and it seems to be a little frustrating, as there is no mention of parents or any family problems.

A film full of punch and enough to get you thinking a bout it for a while after you have seen it. Meaty performance from Fassbender and great things from Mcqueen. Worth a look, as it lives up to the hype that came before it.

4 out of 5