Harry Escott’s score to Steve McQueen’s Shame is a work of painful intensity—of the lingering kind. The ‘coo inducing crescendo’ pathos of Unravelling, when paired with the exquisitely taunt and drawn out sequences featuring Michael Fassbender’s Brandon preying in the subway and later running in desperation, is a work of cinematic brilliance.
The comments in the YouTube clip will lead you to the work of Hans Zimmer, for an apparent homophonic analogue in his score for The Thin Red Line.
