Sex And The City
Some Quick Thoughts About Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011)
[…] If monogamy is proposed as a “stable” alternative that Brandon’s unable to cede to, it’s because that’s exactly the binary society pressures us into accepting wholly: you either form a long, exclusive relationship with one person and be happy, or you continue to fuck around and be shamed into loneliness and depression. It’s not Brandon’s fault that he rejects the “positive” possibility; it’s a social problem that only those two possibilities are coded as “normal” lifestyles, reducing Brandon’s chances for happiness to zero.
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This is an interesting take but I have to disagree. For this reading to be true, we would have to believe that Brandon...
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