Shame/YMMV


 * Anvilicious: Everything we see Brandon do has something to with his sex addiction. It also implies that porn is a dirty, dirty, shameful thing that even his horndog boss finds objectionable. In a film that for the most part steers utterly away from any "if X then Y" reasoning, "Porn is for sex addicts" stands out as an odd apparent stance.
 * It is worth noting that Brandon becomes significantly more self-destructive once he removes porn, which had previously functioned as a release valve.
 * His boss also seems to be reacting more to the actual genres of pornography on Brandon's hard drive, finding the fetishistic nature of it to be confronting. Still an unusual emphasis given the rest of the film's subtlety, but it may be more to highlight David's hypocrisy than it is the film's message.
 * Award Snub: Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan both went unlauded at the Oscars. The film's NC-17 rating probably had something to do with this.
 * Fetish Retardant: You want nudity, it's there by the truckload, but the sex is presented as an alien, desperate thing, and the nudity in non-sex scenes has far too much Incest Subtext to ignore.