*** Warning: Spoiler ahead. ***

Although the 2011 movie “Shame” (starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan) is a good film, it’s not without its unexamined biases.

Firstly, the stereotyping of high-libido, erotically-focused individuals as inherently flawed and maladaptive is, well, boringly typical.

Secondly, and most disturbingly, towards the end of the film, when the Fassbender character starts circling the drain by compulsively fucking without regard, the music swells with tragic foreboding when he starts fucking men.

It’s not established earlier on in the film that he’s explicitly bisexual and/or pansexual. It’s just dropped in the film like a turd that he’s truly lost when he starts getting it on with dudes.

Not cool, “Shame”. The film could have been so much better if it showed him happily participating in relationships with people of many genders before reducing his obsessive downfall to same-sex relationships as a last resort.