A MOVIE LOVER

It's a common belief that a consequence to a movie would not be any good with an exception of just a few films that have proven to be not as bad as the first movie. Say, Meet The Parents - Meet The Fockers did live up to our expectations, and maybe even more. Say, Agent 007 . But that's from another category of the sequence movies - it's like a new movie every time they make a 'sequence', beautiful women change, villains change and even James Bond, once in a decade - changes. However, for the most part, as a general rule, one expects very little from the sequence, especially when the first movie was about the human trafficking and sex slavery, who would want to see the sequence to it? What's else new could have been done for the second part - a new villain? A new victim? A new  hero? Taken-2 - a sequence to the blockbuster success Taken - is a movie that has it all: love, action, family and - the locale!Although, this is definitely not the movie to pr...

What's the idea behind the movie? I kept asking myself this question throughout the movie "Shame"  , directed by Steve McQueen , as I watched a scene after scene of the main character's full frontal and endless sexual activities, including very graphic masturbation scenes. I wanted to 'read into the lines' to see if there's a point to all of it for the director to actually make a movie that is both disturbing, dark, sad and solves nothing. However, some of you might have no doubt, what the director wanted to show. A man's despair? Perhaps. A sexual deviance? Definitely. A today's modern family? I'd say so. A lonely New York City? This could be possible too.