SHAME

Michael Fassbender—with the sinew and smoulder to fully create the modern urban beast of prey—plays Brandon and his days are spent with internet porno, self-gratification in public toilets, hookers, and back alley rutting—this is human connection at a basic level, without any humanity. Thank God this isn’t an issue movie—a crusade-for-help-for-an-afflcition-that-needs-sensitive-treatment-but-isn’t-quite-a-registered-charity-yet movie—but an apt metaphor (as was American Psycho) of the heartless vacuity of gleaming modern New York life.