The director, Nick Cassavetes, who has given much care to the actors in his previous films "Unhook the Stars" and "She's So Lovely," is the wrong man for an action melodrama so lacking in shame that it finally seems laughable.
The same phenomenon, but lacking the shame, is evident among supporters of the Globe's invitation to Israel's Habima Theatre, as they fling unevidenced accusations of anti-Semitism, delegitimising of Israel, exclusion of Jewish actors and worse at those who want Habima to be uninvited.
He lacks the shame that has kept Dunbar and others like her from relying on the procedural defense.
People who made up for what they lacked in shame with tons of annoying horseplay, shit jokes and a weirdly premature knowledge of sex that only made sense when you went round their house and they showed you their parents' VHS porn stash.
And lacking the old shame associated with downsizing, they are more willing to help each other land the next job.
Someone brought up in such circumstances might feel a secret, three-pronged shame: shame for pretending to be something you're not; shame for being something that mainstream society regards as repulsive; and shame for lacking the courage to be publicly what you really are, whatever the prejudices of the dominant culture.
Pro-opposition daily Gazeta Wyborcza referred to the row between Poland and the EU as "Judgement Day", accusing the government of "lacking a sense of shame whatsoever... trampling people's will".
Everyone of them should be hanging their heads in shame for lacking the courage and moral integrity to do what they knew was right.
But Senator Macdonald's lack of shame — his astonishing, unbelievable lack of shame — highlights just how strategic all of this is.
Then, every pause, every hesitation, every clue will be analyzed as will Sandusky's lack of shame to be asked such questions, his lack of outrage any of us might feel if we found ourselves wrongly accused.
But they lack the slightest shame or self-awareness.
