Shame
Yup, that's about as uncomfortable as I remember it being.Michael Fassbender's performance in this has always stayed with me since I first saw it. Having just revisited Shame, I must say that his performance is truly fearless, similar to Isabelle Huppert's committed role in The Piano Teacher. I might be a bit strange and get drawn into character studies where sex plays a major role in a character's psychology, but I don't care because Shame is definitely Steve McQueen's masterpiece. His direction is incredible, creating this dark world that Brandon inhabits, developing his strange relationship with his sister, Sissy, and carefully crafting a narrative that captures Brandon's addiction and how it leads to an ending that made me tear up. The sibling relationship itself is so fascinating that it makes the movie endlessly watchable to me, despite how the last twenty minutes are so hard to watch that my spine was actually twisting away from the screen, but it felt so... climactic. The supporting performances were also incredible. This movie made me love Carey Mulligan, and I really noticed how good James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie are. The script is fantastic, building up dread and including some of my favorite scenes from the 2010s, especially the hotel scene between Brandon and Marianne, which perfectly captures McQueen's intentions. I want to rewatch 12 Years A Slave and Widows at some point, and I think this was a good push to finally do it.