Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is the femme fatale of the 1992 neo-noir thriller Basic Instinct.
She is an openly bi crime writer who is suspected of murder that plays out like one of her books. Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is a police detective who is investigating the murder. A part of this questioning is, of course, the famous leg-crossing scene.
Nick and Catherine begin a torrid affair while he investigates her, and she manipulates him. Roxy, Catherine’s girlfriend, tries to murder Nick but ends up dying.
Ultimately, another woman, who is supposedly obsessed with Catherine, is found guilty of all of the murders that happen throughout the film.
Nick returns to Catherine, and they have sex, although she says that they cannot be together. The last shot suggests that Catherine may have been the mastermind killer the entire time.
Catherine is one of the earlier representations of a bi woman in mainstream cinema. However, she is the epitome of every harmful bi stereotype as well. She is sexually insatiable and uses her sexuality to manipulate and destroy everyone around her.
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