Brandon chooses to hire escorts to avoid the constraints and compromises inherent in traditional relationships aligns with his character's aversion to restrictions. The film does portray him as someone resistant to emotional entanglements and unwilling to conform to societal expectations.
He values his freedom and autonomy, which he perceives as compromised in conventional relationships.
He cries on the pavement because his lifestyle is out of control,he wants to stop and yet he can't because he knows he will be back to it again
His perversion reached new levels when he engaged in MSM with people he had no idea about
His sister,Sissy, is no exception,she was willing to cut her wrists in her brothers attempt to force him to be with her and Brandon knows about this,shown when he used vitopersory language on the couch with her, lamenting on her tactics when he said to her she trapped him.
But the fact that she was willing to go as far as to take her own life,well that suggests It suggests a profound desire for connection and a fear of losing the only significant bond she seems to have, even if it means resorting to drastic measures.
Perhaps this could be due to her upbringing and could be exacerbated when they moved to NYC when was in her teenagehood from Ireland when everything is different,bullying could be a source.
She wants to be seen,wants to be noticed,wants to be heard,maybe this is why she chose to be a singer,they did mention that they came from a large family and the isolation she feels celebrated in the west as "independence"is something she doesn't agree with but has to forcefully accept because her brother agrees with that sentiment.
Brandon comes to an isolated apartment with no family,If he got a wife,he would be forced to conform to western societal expectations,if he doesn't get,his apartment is empty and he has no release for his desires,self stimulation can only take him for so long,his need for emotional connection and his need for unrestrained physical connection contradict each other and he developed cognitive dissonance which he tries to solve but fails to so he loses himself
Shame 2011 is a movie that shows what isolation and unremitting attention can do do to someone in a society that encourages people to separate from their family siblings because they are "adults" and hence should have their own homes when in reality,there's no 1 way to live your life and nothing bad happens when you go against what western society has said.
He values his freedom and autonomy, which he perceives as compromised in conventional relationships.
He cries on the pavement because his lifestyle is out of control,he wants to stop and yet he can't because he knows he will be back to it again
His perversion reached new levels when he engaged in MSM with people he had no idea about
His sister,Sissy, is no exception,she was willing to cut her wrists in her brothers attempt to force him to be with her and Brandon knows about this,shown when he used vitopersory language on the couch with her, lamenting on her tactics when he said to her she trapped him.
But the fact that she was willing to go as far as to take her own life,well that suggests It suggests a profound desire for connection and a fear of losing the only significant bond she seems to have, even if it means resorting to drastic measures.
Perhaps this could be due to her upbringing and could be exacerbated when they moved to NYC when was in her teenagehood from Ireland when everything is different,bullying could be a source.
She wants to be seen,wants to be noticed,wants to be heard,maybe this is why she chose to be a singer,they did mention that they came from a large family and the isolation she feels celebrated in the west as "independence"is something she doesn't agree with but has to forcefully accept because her brother agrees with that sentiment.
Brandon comes to an isolated apartment with no family,If he got a wife,he would be forced to conform to western societal expectations,if he doesn't get,his apartment is empty and he has no release for his desires,self stimulation can only take him for so long,his need for emotional connection and his need for unrestrained physical connection contradict each other and he developed cognitive dissonance which he tries to solve but fails to so he loses himself
Shame 2011 is a movie that shows what isolation and unremitting attention can do do to someone in a society that encourages people to separate from their family siblings because they are "adults" and hence should have their own homes when in reality,there's no 1 way to live your life and nothing bad happens when you go against what western society has said.