WARNING:SPOILERS THROUGHOUT!!!!
There are few movies as horrifyingly moving and tragic as "Shame", a story about a female lawyer road traveling who stops in a small town in Australia when she has bike problems. She forms a friendship with a young girl from the town who has been gang raped and nobody in town seems to care or believe her.The lawyer becomes intent on getting justice done and also begins to notice how the boys in town seem to have free reighn to do pretty much anything they want to anyone without any objections from the townspeople. To the contrary, the townspeople seem to blatantly favor the boys and when the 2 females unite together their lives become at risk.
I saw this a long time ago and have never forgotten it. This movie is perhaps the most difficult to watch of anything I've ever viewed. I don't think anyone can argue that this movie, tragic as it is, is a little known masterpiece. I myself had never heard of it originally.
The ending to this movie is perhaps the darkest and most tragic I've ever seen-and I've seen a lot of movies. I can guarantee if you haven't seen this movie and you decide to, it will affect you for a long time to come and you may even regret having seen it because of how much it WILL upset you. Still, I think anyone who really appreciates a brilliant, well done film and who can appreciate a film that maybe tragic from start to middle to finish would probably benefit from seeing this though there is probably not 1 minute of true cheerfulness in the film. It is still brilliant though and I'm sure will leave you absolutely stunned-and horrified. I wish this film was better known but I'm not surprised that the people who HAVE seen it reviewed it so positively because this movie conforms to no stereotypes.
There are few movies as horrifyingly moving and tragic as "Shame", a story about a female lawyer road traveling who stops in a small town in Australia when she has bike problems. She forms a friendship with a young girl from the town who has been gang raped and nobody in town seems to care or believe her.The lawyer becomes intent on getting justice done and also begins to notice how the boys in town seem to have free reighn to do pretty much anything they want to anyone without any objections from the townspeople. To the contrary, the townspeople seem to blatantly favor the boys and when the 2 females unite together their lives become at risk.
I saw this a long time ago and have never forgotten it. This movie is perhaps the most difficult to watch of anything I've ever viewed. I don't think anyone can argue that this movie, tragic as it is, is a little known masterpiece. I myself had never heard of it originally.
The ending to this movie is perhaps the darkest and most tragic I've ever seen-and I've seen a lot of movies. I can guarantee if you haven't seen this movie and you decide to, it will affect you for a long time to come and you may even regret having seen it because of how much it WILL upset you. Still, I think anyone who really appreciates a brilliant, well done film and who can appreciate a film that maybe tragic from start to middle to finish would probably benefit from seeing this though there is probably not 1 minute of true cheerfulness in the film. It is still brilliant though and I'm sure will leave you absolutely stunned-and horrified. I wish this film was better known but I'm not surprised that the people who HAVE seen it reviewed it so positively because this movie conforms to no stereotypes.