Not at all.  There is a hugh difference between these two films and one is the Filth has a story...Shame has none.  It's suppose to not have a story...that's the cool thing about it....it's about a well off white male New Yorker (boring right?)  and how he suffers with wanting sex all the time. I found the dialogue lazy and the same goes for the way it was filmed.

Look back and see the kind of films that were being made in the 1970's and the lives a lot of these white male actors were living.  Come on now...these actors today are tamed compared to them.  Just because a man walks around for a bit with that long thing hanging doesn't make that film fresh and raw. It's time for these people to come up with another reason why someone didn't like the film.  I wish they would not make it out that their minds are back in the 1950's when you don't like something like this.   

FILTH has a story a character that you will feel something for, whatever that may be.  It has so much more going for it and yes if it turns out to be a good film I could see the academy voting for it. 

Also it was filmed in the country of where the story takes place with a lot of actors from the area.

McQueen filmed his movie in America in NYC but had to make his male lead Irish American. He didn't have to do that, the critics would never commented on MF's bad American accent...they would have made a excuse again for him. haha  

Edited 1 time by Island29 Feb 20 12 5:32 PM.