Shame (2011 film)

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Embarrass is a 2011 British drama film directed and co-written by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as a grown-up sibling. It was produced jointly by Film4 and See-Saw Films. The film's explicit scenes reflecting the protagonist's sexual addiction resulted in an NC-17 rating in the United States. Shame was released in the UK on January 13, 2012.

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Plot

Brandon Sullivan is an Irish-American executive of New York City and a long-term bachelor. She is a sex addict who often has sex with prostitutes and masturbates several times each day, sometimes seeing pornography on her computer. One day Brandon made eye contact with a woman wearing an engagement ring on the subway during her morning journey. He initially retaliates, but becomes uncomfortable. When they came out, he disappeared into the crowd. She masturbates in the bathroom afterwards at work. Brandon and his married boss, David, beat women at a club; later, Brandon had sex on a quiet street with Elizabeth, the woman David sought.

Brandon has ignored a call from his sister, Sissy, a lounge singer. She arrives at her apartment surprised to find her in the bathroom with jazz, thinking it might be a thief. Sissy has several shows in town and asks to stay; he then hears her pleading with her lover on the phone to not refuse her. After the computer system of the company Brandon was infected with a computer virus, they found his hard drive full of pornography. David considers Brandon's apprentice apprentice responsible.

Brandon scolded Sissy for balancing on the edge of the underground platform. Later, he and David watch it perform "New York, New York" in a bar, which makes Brandon emotional. David seduced him and noticed the scars he had suffered in his arms. Sissy had sex with David in her sister's room while Brandon, disgusted, kept running. That night, Sissy tried to sleep with Brandon; he told her to get out of the room.

Brandon went on a date with co-worker Marianne, who recently split up and had a positive attitude towards commitment, while Brandon disliked the idea of ​​marriage and admitted that her relationship had not lasted more than four months. After dinner they talk about who they were in the past life. When they reach the subway station, they go home separately.

That night, Sissy found Brandon masturbating in the bathroom. He attacked and accused him of spying on him. He found his laptop open on a porn webcam site. Brandon slammed the laptop shut and leaves Sissy disturbed. Brandon dumps pornography, sex toys, and laptops. At work, he kissed Marianne and both got hotel rooms, but Brandon could not maintain an erection. As soon as Marianne left, Brandon was seen having an aggressive sex with a prostitute in the window of the same hotel room.

Brandon tells Sissy that David has family, and insists that he leave. He says that, as a family, they should help each other out, but Brandon accuses him of being irresponsible and burdensome. Brandon goes to a bar and goes to a woman, explaining in detail what she will do to her sexually. He almost gave up when his girlfriend conspired. Brandon laughed in his face and said what he said. After he left the club dissatisfied, the boyfriend followed him out and hit Brandon brutally. When he was physically barred from entering other clubs, he went to a gay bar across the street and was subverted by a man. After leaving, he listened to a voicemail message from Sissy who cried when he told him that they were not bad people, but came from a bad place. Approaching the point of withdrawal, Brandon has a threesome with two prostitutes.

While Brandon drove the subway, passengers were asked to leave the train because of a police emergency (implied to be suicide under a train). He frantically summoned Sissy, but he did not answer. He ran home to find Sissy sitting on the bathroom floor covered in blood, after cutting both wrists. He tried to stop the bleeding when he asked his cell phone for help. He survives and he comforts her in the hospital. After leaving, he walks until he fainted, crying in the rain.

Some time later, Brandon was riding the subway. Looking around, he watched the same woman from the beginning of the movie, still wearing an engagement ring. This time, the female initiates teased, but Brandon hesitated. He stood up, ready to get out of the train at the approaching station. As the train slows down, Brandon does not take his eyes off the woman, but neither stands up.

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Cast

• Michael Fassbender as Brandon Sullivan
• Carey Mulligan as Sissy Sullivan
• James Badge Dale as David
• Nicole Beharie as Marianne
• Alex Manette as Steven
• Lucy Walters as The Subway Lady
• Elizabeth Masucci as Elizabeth
• Amy Hargreaves as Hotel Lover

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Production

Development

McQueen teamed up with producer Iain Canning in the 2008 film Hunger and reunited to develop Shame with the See-Saw Movies of Canning and Emile Sherman from England/Australia. McQueen's main actor in Hunger, Michael Fassbender, is the first and only choice to play a lead role in Shame . Actor Carey Mulligan and James Badge Dale joined the cast in December 2010 to portray the younger brother and boss, respectively, the Fassbender character. Screenwriter Abi Morgan was chosen to produce the script, making it one of two films he worked on with Film4 (the other being The Iron Lady).

Filming

Production is scheduled to begin at a location in New York in January 2011, though Fassbender later commented in an interview that he just started filming his scene in early March. "I have so many baits that I can not even tell you," says casting director Avy Kaufman, who faces the challenge in casting NC-17-rated movies. Kaufman has the unique task of McQueen, who wants high-quality actors even for small parts - like Brand-by-night sexual partners. "The idea is that the partners will push the story forward with their silence, show Brandon's state of mind, or even suggest the history of their relationship with the look or movement.Actress, of course, must also meet certain physical requirements." The majority of the film taken in and around Chelsea. Views of the office were filmed at Citigroup Center and hotel scenes as well as nightclubs were shot at the Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District. Filming ends in late May for re-shooting, and post production begins.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack was released via Sony Classical Records on December 6, 2011.

• "New York, New York" Theme "arrangement and production by Stephen Oremus and pianos by Liz Caplan

Personnel

• David Butterworth - orchestration (1, 11, 15)
• Rolf Wilson - leader of (1, 11, 15)
• Nick Wollage - recording, recording, mixing (1, 11, 15)
• Pete Hutchings - technical assistant (1, 11, 15)
• Manfred Melchior - master
• Ian Wood - score editor (1, 11, 15)
• Isobel Griffiths - orchestra contractor (1, 11, 15)
• Lucy Whalley - assistant orchestra contractor (1, 11, 15)
• White Label Productions - design
• Steve McQueen - liner notes

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Release

Shame premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival in the main competition. Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in the film. It was also screened at The 36th Toronto International Film Festival, The 49th New York Film Festival, The 55th B.F.I. The London Film Festival and the 34th Denver Starz Film Festival.

Shame was released in the UK on January 13, 2012, following a limited release of the US release that began on December 2nd, 2011. Fox Searchlight Pictures paid about $ 400,000 to get US distribution rights.

US Rating

The film is rated NC-17 (no children under the age of 17 are accepted) by the Motion Picture Association of America for some explicit sexual content. Fox Searchlight does not appeal the rating or make a deduction for a less restrictive R rating. Searchlight President Steve Gilula said, "I think the NC-17 is a badge of honor, not a red letter We believe it's time for the rating to be usable in a serious way."

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Reception

Shame received a positive review and got a 79% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 199 reviews with an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. Consensus states "Strikes star performances by Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, > Embarrassment is a powerful plunge into addiction-addicted mania. "The film also has a score of 72 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 41 reviews.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave this film four out of four stars and described it as a "strong film" and "brave and honest", commenting that "this is a major act of filming and acting. believes I will be able to see it twice. "Ebert will then name it his second best movie of 2011. Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter gave this film a positive review, stating," Driven by a brilliant and fierce appearance by Michael Fassbender, Shy is really walking on the wild side, a terrible look at the case of sexual addiction which includes everything as a desire for drugs. "

And Bullock of The Hollywood News says, " Shame is so charming and so intimate." McQueen has been starving with an intense and engaging movie that explores the depth addiction and destruction and destruction of the mind and though sometimes it is difficult to observe, you will not be able to keep your eyes off it. "Justin Chang of Variety gave the film a positive review, remarking," A compelling companion song for his debut in 2008, Hunger, the more easy-to-understand but equally uncompromising drama also improved his gaze on the usage and abuse of the human body, as Michael Fassbender again disarmed him, in every way an actor can, for a strict but humane interrogation of McQueen. "

Writing in The New York Times, AO Scott said, "McQueen wants to show how the intensity of Brandon's needs stops him from real intimacy, but this seems to be a foregone conclusion, the result of an elegant experiment being rigged from the start." Donald Clarke from The Irish Times called it "the healthiest film made about unwholesomeness since The Exorcist " notes that "the mainstream of Puritanism, however, is more than a bit oppressive."

Writing for Mubi, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky said, "Every scene was filled with the most distinguished cinema dolls: ambiguity... Embarrassed using her emptiness like a badge of honor, McQueen tried to empty, and although he succeeds in that, you hope that the filmmaker (and one with the background as an artist at the time) will aspire to do more than just say nothing. "

In a blog for the British journal The Art of Psychiatry, psychiatrist Abby Seltzer praised Mulligan for his portrayal of an individual with a threshold personality disorder. When he initially approached the film with difficulty due to a review focusing on Brandon's sex addiction, he found it "a moving and accurate picture of psychopathology... [which should] be seen for all practicing physicians."

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Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in April 2012.

Accolades

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Shame on IMDb
• Shame in AllMovie
• Shame at Rotten Tomatoes
• Shame in Metacritic
• Shame in Box Office Mojo

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