The Shame

Ingmar Bergman stretches a classic Bergman couple on the tightening rack of war.

It is a question without an answer in Shame, which does not deliver a message in any formal way, but simply offers people and their lives and leaves us to conclude what we choose.

"What a wonder is a gun," opined one-time Bergman adapter Stephen Sondheim.

Shame is a complex anti-war film. The setting, its fuzzy time frame are almost expressionistic against realistic performances of the actors. It denounces war, any war and shows how it sucks humanity out of normal people. And what an ending!