fasten your seatbelts please, here cums michael

just watched steve mcqueen's shame and i luv it. like totally.
not because the gorgeous michael fassbender (i luv his last name..you can make up a lot of nice words from it..like fastbender...) is always naked and showed his dick so many times. ok, ok, who am i kidding. of course i luv the film because of michael's nude scenes. and sex scenes. plently. the three sum is simply awsum!


but the film is more than sex.
it has a soul.
it's also about the luv between an older brother and a younger sister.
of lost souls.
it's also about success and how it changes us. creates another us.
about using sex to ease our pain, to forget the sadness of everyday life. forget about the burden of a dark past, of an even darker present and perhaps, future.
the scene showing the ravishing and talented carey mulligan (luv her in an education and never let me go. she loooks lyk another favorite young actress michelle williams. they should make a movie together) singing new york, new york with such melancholy, with such sadness, is heartbreaking.
of course michael is absolutely perfect -- running, meeting clients in his posh office,  having sex in his even posher flat, riding the subway alone, picking up strangers both men and women, in a business suit, naked, in a track suit, in tight underwear. he even looks ravishing even when jacking off in the toilet.
he is a child really, playing an adult. just like his younger sister carey.


it was never explained what made them such dark, sad creatures. though in one scene, carey told michael: "we are not bad people. we just come from a bad place." i luv!
it's a shame that the academy (ho hum) snubbed the performances of michael and carey, who is even better here than in her oscar nominated role in an education.
but maybe the academy deemed this film too dark, too scandalous, too raunchy for an oscar! duh!
it's a reflection of our times. it's a derivative of this generation - how everyone lives in his own world and is more comfortable communicating with others through iphone, skype, facebook, ym and internet. it's as if we have forgotten the value of meeting another person face to face. the warmth that another human being can give us up close, in person.
technology has made us even more isolated. more wary of each other. less real, even to ourselves. we have adopted multiple personalities -- one for the office, another one for our family, another one for our online friends on facebook or tumblr, etc.
ah, what a way to live.
shame reminds us how modern life has stolen our souls.
how technology has blurred the lines between fantasy and reality.
shame on us, indeed.

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here is the trailer in case you care:



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