Would it help if I said my facial expressions out loud?

Lenny Abrahamson | Frank, 2014

Frank: "Welcoming smile"

Jon: "Delighted look"

começar e acabar

Michael Fassbender in, Hunger | Steve McQueen, 2008

'What initially brought me to the subject was the notion of what an individual is capable of doing just in order to be heard,' he says. 'I remember, as a kid, seeing Bobby Sands's image on the news every night and this number underneath, which, I later found out, corresponded to the number of days he had gone without food. That somehow stayed with me. People say, "Oh, it's a political film", but, for me, it's essentially about what we, as humans, are capable of, morally, physically, psychologically. What we will inflict and what we can endure.'

Steve McQueen in, The Guardian

o outro lado da vergonha

© Dave J Hogan | Michael Fassbender & Steve McQueen, 2011


"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

Walt Whitman

no abismo do mundo

Michael Fassbender in, Shame | Steve McQueen

Aquilo que se escreva conservará
cegamente um tremor central, esse calafrio de ter olhado alguma vez o
nosso rosto filmado no abismo do mundo.

Herberto Helder