YMMV / Shame

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Brandon doesn't quite seem comfortable with his sister around him. Is it really because he doesn't like that she disturbed his privacy? Or perhaps his sexual addiction is so overwhelming he can't help but see her in a sexualized way that he knows is wrong and sick, therefore feeling even more... "shame"? Who knows.
• Award Snub: Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan both went unlauded at the Oscars. The film's NC-17 rating probably had something to do with this.
• Misaimed Fandom: As evidenced by several comment sections centered on the bar scene where Brandon woos and fingers a woman after discovering that she's in a relationship, a fair amount of people view Brandon's behavior out of context as an example for men to aspire to just because he's played by Michael Fassbender at his most seductive, disregarding Brandon's toxic relationship with sex throughout the film, and even his refusal to respect boundaries in that very scene.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Woman on the Subway Train Brandon sees at the beginning and end of the film.
• Tearjerker:
  • The scene near the end where Brandon abandons Sissy for a night with prostitutes and we only hear the haunting music and Sissy's voicemails to Brandon.
  • When Brandon rushes home expecting to find a suicide note by Sissy that she jumped under the train but instead finds her bleeding out from self-inflicted wounds in the bathroom.

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