Brandon's addiction for sex and pleasure becomes unbearable as he does whatever he can to fulfil his requirements. Both of their lives spiral out of control. His sister comes along and he is unable to control it. We follow a middle aged man who lives a precarious yet carefully managed lifestyle. This is an uneasy story about the nature of need, being desired by other people and actually wanting to matter in life. I warn you, this is a heavy film and is 18 rated for a reason. This was an outstanding film in both the acting and technical categories. I saw him as a bipolar character, and I went with that idea.Shame is provocative, seductive and unforgettable. He's a closed sort of package, because the times he has opened himself up, he's got burnt pretty badly, so he prefers to keep a cold exterior on things and protect himself. He really needs her more than she needs him. He finds the people ugly, and the intellectual side of him is there. And the fact that he is a sort of rebel within that, he does not like this social class that he's a part of, and you can see that in his awkwardness when Blanche comes and he's courting her. the fact that Rochester talks on an equal level with the governess alone would have been not good in that time period. Once you've done all that and you concentrate in that, you want to throw it away because at the end of the day, yes, the people behave differently, the etiquettes are different, but essentially, they're exactly the same." It's like a scale, trying to unlock the different rhythms. I always think that the dialogue in the script is like a piece of music, and that's another reason why I keep repeating it. If you didn't have a command of the language that you discoursed in, then you wouldn't survive. "The main thing for me with them was use of vocabulary: articulation especially within the academic world. On starring in the period films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method Now, you're a couple of clicks away and there's millions of options." When I was 15 and trying to get to the top shelf without being caught and then having to muster up the courage to get to the counter to pay for whatever it was - magazine or DVD - you have to deal with the shame there and then. I suppose the difference between my teenage porn experiences and today. The addiction totally takes over so the pleasure center dwindles, and it's more about satisfying the compulsion. "An alcoholic doesn't enjoy a drink, but it gets to a point where when you wake up in the morning, you have to get a bottle of liquor in your system just in order to function. "It would be a similar circumstance if you make a parallel to an alcoholic," Fassbender tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. It was his role in Shame that recently earned Fassbender a string of accolades, including Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and a variety of critics associations.įassbender plays a sex-addicted New York executive named Brandon Sullivan, whose physical and psychological hungers drive him to frequent hookers, Internet porn, casual sex joints and porn shops - all with reckless abandon and seemingly no sense of pleasure. Rochester in Jane Eyre and a sex addict in Shame. In the past year, actor Michael Fassbender has played a mutant villain in X-Men: First Class, psychoanalyst Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Mr. In Shame, Brandon (Michael Fassbender) pursues sex not for pleasure but to fulfill a driving compulsion.
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