A very good movie

Since I really loved ‘Hunger’ and ’12 Years a Slave’, obviously, I had to watch the movie Steve McQueen directed in between and, indeed, I was really eager to check it out. Once again, McQueen really impressed me and it is not very often that you come across a director who managed to deliver so much quality with just 3 movies. I simply can’t wait to see what he will do next. The only thing I’m worried is that the whole dreariness of his tales might become a gimmick at some point if he keeps throwing at us such dark and relentless dramas. Anyway, this time, he gave us a rather painful portrait of a man driven by his obsession and how his life constantly revolves around this obsession and nothing else. Since I’m a rather obsessive person (the most obvious would be my compulsive movie watching with more than 5000 movies watched and around 3800 reviews written on this website), it was rather confronting and I could definitely relate with him in the way that, even though his constant search for sex gives him a purpose, it also makes him emotionless and completely unable to connect or socialize with other human beings. At least, junkies or alcoholists usually have an active (albeit sick) social life but the main character here choses not to have such a social life, probaby because of the shame he constantly feels. Once again, Michael Fassbender who is obviously one of the greatest actors of his generation gave a fearless performance and it is really astonishing that he wasn’t even nominated at the Academy awards. To conclude, as usual with McQueen, it was a rather tough watch but it is still a riveting drama and it is definitely worth a look.

8/10