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• Director: Steve McQueen (III)
• Release Date: Dec 2011
• Run Time: 99
• Genre: Drama

This is one movie that is appropriately titled. Shame. It is the central theme of the movie and pushes the audience to think and ponder over their own shameful habits that engulf and control them. The ironic thing about this movie is that it is the bleakest, greyest and most depressing movie I have seen but it is probably the best movie of 2011. Poignant from beginning to end, this movie will leave you with more questions than answers.

Shame is a British drama that tells the tale of two siblings, Brandon Sullivan and Sissy Sullivan. Brandon is a man that has it all: he is vastly successful in a high flying career in the powerhouse that is New York, has devilish good looks, a charm with the ladies and still quite youthful. However, beneath the glamour at the surface, Brandon has a shameful habit; he is controlled and consumed by his enormous sexual appetite. This leads him to satisfy his appetite by any means possible- he sleeps with prostitutes, has an uncountable number of one-night-stands and shamelessly engages in daily masturbation. This is how his life is structured- work and sex. His routine is disturbed with the arrival of his even more disturbed sister, Sissy. She is perhaps even more damaged than he is, having tried and failed to take her life on several occasions.

The movie explains that the two were brought up in New Jersey and share a dark and disturbed past, which is not fully revealed. Whatever the secrets of the past bear, they affect the ability of the two to maintain positive relationships with people of the opposite sex. The movie is out rightly sexually explicit and shows several scenes of passionless, meaningless sex taking place, using it as a tool to show the emptiness of it all. No amount of sex makes Brandon happy. He tries to overcome his fear of intimacy and even goes on a date with an attractive co-worker, but the bleakness of the movie continues as we see how this turns out to be a failed attempt. His sister Sissy is no better and even has sex with Brandon’s boss, an unattractive married man who fails at picking up even the loosest of women at a common pick-up bar. They do this in Brandon’s room as Brandon hears the events from his sitting room, hopeless and helpless to prevent it all.

What is the point of such a dreary film? One may ask. Shame brings to light real-life miserable situations that engulf us which we seem helpless to. Frustratingly, the movie does not offer any practical solution to the problems of the siblings and leaves us to conclude they are destined to live in misery and anguish that can only be spared by death. Chillingly somber, this movie will most definitely not lift your spirits but will definitely challenge you to think beyond the surface. You will love this movie, and hate yourself for loving it.