Threatening the very limits of common decency.

Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
A Dirty Shame keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, freedom, repression, sexuality.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Porco Rosso (1992)E8/E9 · freedom, identity
Ferdinand (2017)E8/E9 · freedom, identity
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)E8/E9 · freedom, identity
Pokémon: The First Movie (1998)E8/E9 · freedom, identity
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)E8/E9 · identity, prejudice
Brüno (2009)E8/E9 · identity, prejudiceThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Us (2019)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Poor Things (2023)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Surrogates (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Trolls (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · loose