'Shame'
Writers: Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan and Harold Manning (French Adaptation)
Release Date: 13th January 2012
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
After the success of his stunning biopic of Irish Republican Bobby Sands, 'Hunger' (2008), Steve McQueen again chooses to collaborate with Michael Fassbender in a tale of addiction, loss and lust. 'Shame' follows the troubled life of Brandon (Fassbender), a sex addict, and the arrival of his derailed younger sister, played by Carey Mulligan. Unlike 'Hunger', which exercised its emotion through visceral imagery, Mcqueen utilises the anguish of his screenplay for his dramatic purpose. I am not proclaiming that the film teases at its sexual imagery, but instead suggesting that its bolder scenes do not always give us a parallel to Brandon's own misfortune. While lengthier altercations succeed to inform the disgruntled brother-sister relationship of our leads, the film is starved of an underlying 'movement' to draw other characters together in its succinct running time. The result is a film which, while emotionally challenging, is abrupt in its overarching messages.
'12 Years a Slave'
Writers: John Ridley and Solomon Northup (based on the "Twelve Years a Slave" by)
Release Date: 10th January 2014
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥
In his third feature film British auteur, Steve McQueen, focuses on plantation-era America, adapting the story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man who is enslaved for twelve years. While the sensitive context surrounding this material is no newcomer to cinema, its treatment here is at its utmost haunting. One of McQueen's greatest successes is that he integrates a star-studded ensemble cast without it ever feeling gimmicky. By extension, our central antagonist, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) retains his evil actions so convincingly thanks to the microcosm that McQueen so perfectly creates. It is, however, from this landscape that the film's narrative tests the attention of its audience. The film is not dull but is consistent in its emotional testing of viewers. By the end, our previous sympathies are so stretched so much by the absence of hope that it is hard to fully submit our happiness to the justice that remains.
Writers: Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan and Harold Manning (French Adaptation)
Release Date: 13th January 2012
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥
After the success of his stunning biopic of Irish Republican Bobby Sands, 'Hunger' (2008), Steve McQueen again chooses to collaborate with Michael Fassbender in a tale of addiction, loss and lust. 'Shame' follows the troubled life of Brandon (Fassbender), a sex addict, and the arrival of his derailed younger sister, played by Carey Mulligan. Unlike 'Hunger', which exercised its emotion through visceral imagery, Mcqueen utilises the anguish of his screenplay for his dramatic purpose. I am not proclaiming that the film teases at its sexual imagery, but instead suggesting that its bolder scenes do not always give us a parallel to Brandon's own misfortune. While lengthier altercations succeed to inform the disgruntled brother-sister relationship of our leads, the film is starved of an underlying 'movement' to draw other characters together in its succinct running time. The result is a film which, while emotionally challenging, is abrupt in its overarching messages.
'12 Years a Slave'
Writers: John Ridley and Solomon Northup (based on the "Twelve Years a Slave" by)
Release Date: 10th January 2014
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥
In his third feature film British auteur, Steve McQueen, focuses on plantation-era America, adapting the story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free man who is enslaved for twelve years. While the sensitive context surrounding this material is no newcomer to cinema, its treatment here is at its utmost haunting. One of McQueen's greatest successes is that he integrates a star-studded ensemble cast without it ever feeling gimmicky. By extension, our central antagonist, Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender) retains his evil actions so convincingly thanks to the microcosm that McQueen so perfectly creates. It is, however, from this landscape that the film's narrative tests the attention of its audience. The film is not dull but is consistent in its emotional testing of viewers. By the end, our previous sympathies are so stretched so much by the absence of hope that it is hard to fully submit our happiness to the justice that remains.
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