Movie - Shame 20.02.2012

Well, hard to know where to start with this one. The main character was just so unengaging. Carrie Mulligan of course stole the show with her quivering vulnerability, it was a direct counterpoint to the main character's emotional shutdown. I could not engage with him. At one point, the middle of an orgy scene, it just became funny because you could see the pain he was supposedly going through, but you just couldn't feel it. It got better after his breakdown, when he became flesh and blood again, and I think the tender scene with his co-worker was really good, and then the final scene was also a good one to end it on, him teetering on the edge between fantasy and reality.