Shame (2011)

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Shame is a 2011 British drama film co-written and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender, James Badge Dale, Carey Mulligan and Nicole Beharie.

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Plot: Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a successful, handsome thirty-something living and working in New York. Unknown to those who know him, he's struggling with a sexual addiction. On a subway train he flirts with a woman and she flirts back with him. She has a wedding and engagement ring on, and when they exit the train, she disappears into the crowd. Brandon and his boss David (James Badge Dale) go out and meet women at a club. Later Brandon has sex with the woman David was trying to pursue. When Brandon arrives home, he assumes a burglar is in his house but finds a naked woman taking a shower: it is in fact his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan), a troubled young woman who has been left as damaged as Brandon by their childhood, which is never completely revealed. Brandon and David watch Sissy singing a very sad jazz version of New York, New York at a club, then Sissy sits with Brandon and David on the table, and afterwards Sissy has sex with David in Brandon's bed. Brandon leaves his apartment and runs on the streets while listening to Bach's piano music on his earphones.

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Brandon comes back home; he is annoyed by Sissy's presence. Brandon then tries to pursue his co-worker Marianne (Nicole Beharie), by taking her to dinner. They part ways at the end of the night, and go home alone. Sissy arrives at Brandon's apartment and accidentally walks in on him masturbating in the bathroom. She then finds his laptop open full of pornography. Brandon violently accuses her of spying on him and she storms out. Brandon then takes all of his pornography in his apartment, including his laptop, and throws it out. The next day at work he approaches Marianne and takes her to a lavish hotel room. In the bathroom hidden from Marianne's view, he snorts a line of cocaine. They attempt to have sex but Brandon cannot maintain an erection. Marianne leaves, and some time later, Brandon is seen having sex with another woman in the same hotel room. When Brandon gets home, he watches cartoons, and Sissy arrives and talks to him. She says that they are family and are supposed to help each other, but Brandon wants nothing to do with her because he says all she does is drag him down.

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