Director: Steve McQueen

Year Released: 2011

Studio: Fox Searchlight

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan

The great thing about the Internet is that one can find almost anything they’re looking for. The terrible thing about the Internet is that one can find almost anything they’re looking for. Shame is about a sex addict (Michael Fassbender), a man who compulsively looks at porn and employs hookers to satisfy his needs. It seems hard to imagine this film being made at any other time, so easy has the web made it for people like Brandon to lose themselves in videos and images and ads for prostitutes and chat rooms. Full of full-frontal nudity, long-take thrust-filled shots and more dirty talk than a Penthouse Forum, Shame does not find joy in sex. It does not find release or transcendence. It only finds humiliation and helplessness, that feeling of knowing that one is most definitely human yet still unable to control their actions.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2w0iym0Gk]

Next The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

• This is Icky

ncG1vNJzZmidnqmys8DAoqWmnZ6pe7W1zJ5lnKedZH9xfZBoaGtnYGd8tbvPZmhpZZyarrTAjKycsbFdqLK5ecWio6WdlGK6sMLInqpoq5yesaZ70qGYpp1f