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Saw Shame last night. It's, geez, what do I say? It's a very good film within the narrow limits it sets for itself. The acting is fearless and real, although I did NOT need to see Michael Fassbender peeing, even if it was from the back. The script is really assured--lots of silence and what dialogue there is feels true.
Still, the story is so circumscribed and so very bleak that it's a hard film to watch.
I've seen clips from the movie, and I'm very comfortable with not attaching context to them, since without it, they're incendiary hot, and I know the psychology of the movie will just bring me down, even though it looked like softcore porn.
I'm thinking of making this week a Fassbender Fest, as one of the Memphis artsy theaters is playing both Shame and A Dangerous Method over the weekend and I was already planning to go see Haywire tonight.
Not only is he a good actor, the man looks damn good naked, I'll say that for him.
I honestly don't know much about him (aside from that he, like every male actor of a certain age, was in Band of Brothers), but now I have fifty solid reasons to learn much, much more.
Oh My God.
Another Ferris Bueller?????
I have been waiting for this movie for decades!!
(and if I'm wrong I shall weep like a itty bitty baby)
Way to spoil it, Connie!
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So apparently that's a trailer for a Superbowl ad, not a movie.
Feh.