This recent collaboration between Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender is one of those movies that stay with you after you leave the cinema. I went with a few friends to a late showing in one of the smaller screens and it was packed. Going to the cinema often, I always notice that group of guys who go together to have a great laugh and poke fun at the film, regardless of the subject matter. However, within the first ten-fifteen minutes they quieted down and didn’t make a sound for the remainder of the film. I think that is an indication in itself of the impact of Shame.
Fassbender is amazing as the troubled protagonist Brandon and it makes you want to watch every single feature he has ever been in just to enjoy watching him act so well.
Carey Mulligan is also really great as Brandon’s sister Sissy who comes to stay, causing all sorts of problems. It’s great to see her in such a far removed role compared to An Education (one of my favorite movies ever) and she plays the role effortlessly. I will never listen to New York, New York in the same way again.
But in the end, this movie is Fassbender’s. You cannot take your eyes off him from start to finish in an amazing totally enrapturing performance.
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