Shame
Shame’s latest record and Monday’s holiday show at the Brighton Music Hall both prove the twin-guitar quintet has matured in sound and spirit while still flashing youthful spunk.
According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”
Director Steve McQueen’s skillful exploration of troubled human behavior and his use of New York as a psychological landscape make “Shame” off-putting to watch, while at the same time it draws us in. We have no moral compass beyond our own attitudes to ambiguous contemporary sexual mores.
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