Maybe this is reason enough alone to give Timothee Chalamet an Oscar for Marty Supreme. The 30-year-old actor was so committed to his performance as Marty Mauser, the desperately ambitious, wannabe table tennis champion in 1950s New York, that he didn't use a stunt double for one of the most shocking scenes in director Josh Safdie's manic, audacious movie, one
To read Frederic Gros's A Philosophy of Shame is to be reminded of how vulnerable we are to the emotion's inhibitions and agonies. We shame, we are ashamed, and we expend significant energy imagining shameful situations so we might avoid them. Shame makes us vulnerable to humiliation and ruin, and provides a method by which we can humiliate and ruin others. The cycle is often self-perpetuating: shame begets shaming.