There’s a creature. This creature is part human- part animal. The human goes to work at day, earns lucratively and lives a high-end lifestyle. At the break of dusk, this creature retreats to his den, morphing into an animal with a voracious sexual appetite and engages in a world of sexual activity. Hookers often visit, cybersex is routine and his store is filled with cartons of pornographic magazines. This creature is Brandon, Michael Fassbender’s character in Shame.
There’s no guarantee that the beast will remain hidden inside.
Even at his workplace, it possesses him unexpectedly, forcing him to masturbate
in the restroom. It all works out for Brandon, who keeps his sexual feelings
discreet because he doesn’t believe he has complete control over this hypersexual
animal inside him. Shame suggests that something has happened in the past for
him to be threatened by this inner beast.
Everything is fine until his den is invaded by an intruder, the
only person Brandon has a human connection with. Brandon throws out his porn
filled laptop, the magazines and the sex toys. Hookers are kept out of
action. The food supply to the sexual
animal is cut off and you’ll see it is no easy task to keep it pacified.
