My father didn't like the film, acknowledging the performances and cinematography as great, but said the "plot had no point" and I found that very sad. Excuse me while I try to work out exactly why that is in just one blog post.
If you don't already know, the film features Michael Fassbender in the role of a sex addict. In my adolescents I've met plenty horny teenagers and read Judy Blume often, but it wasn't until I delved into Bret Easton Ellis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jay McInerney that the subject of Sexual Obsession really dawned on me. There existed people who weren't only interested or amused by sex, as my classmates were, but were practically consumed by it. I didn't know these people, but they fascinated me.
So when I heard that Steve McQueen (a director who is blazing a prominent path in Film) was teaming up with Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan to create a film on the subject to say I was giddy would not be an exaggeration.
The magic comes from the same seed as "Requiem for a Dream", "Lost in Translation", and "Blue Valentine". These films are concerned with showing sex or drugs or HUMAN EMOTION or maybe all three and they plan on doing it honestly. Isn't that wonderful?
Sometimes you just want something deeper than standard Hollywood popcorn fair.
What that means is no quick cuts, no snappy one liners, and a camera that maybe doesn't move much. A quiet soundtrack. Films that play like recollections of life, rather than fantasies of the imagination. There IS a point to the plot, and it rests in the emotions and ambitions of the siblings, in the feelings they can't express and wish they could.
But enough of that. Watch if for yourself, and get back to me.
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