Shame – the movie

A man at the bottom of a stairway, looking up. I saw myself in him.

I got a detail wrong about *Shame*, and in correcting it, I found a whole other movie hiding inside two minutes of Lucy Walters’s face.

Michael Fassbender’s soulless, brilliant performance yanks my heart out — it captures so much of what I remember from that time in my life.

Shakespeare got something about lust that Steve McQueen didn’t.