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I'm more skeptical of this movie than some, although I do give an 8/10. Its sequel Hannibal reveals what interested Hollywood to begin with; a story about profoundly disturbed mind(s) that was a vehicle to unload nasty psycho segments onto a public thats been so desensitized it takes just that kind of imagery to get a horrified response. There's nothing new about that, and depending on the content I'm sometimes a willing victim. I'll give SotL credit for good acting and a good mystery that needs a solution, but they lost me when Claire most unprofessionally blunders into Bill's lair with no backup. Its a totally rookie move made to appear necessary by the fiction of the story. The peculiar relationship between Lechter and Starling is the most interesting part of the movie.
I'm more skeptical of this movie than some, although I do give an 8/10. Its sequel Hannibal reveals what interested Hollywood to begin with; a story about profoundly disturbed mind(s) that was a vehicle to unload nasty psycho segments onto a public thats been so desensitized it takes just that kind of imagery to get a horrified response. There's nothing new about that, and depending on the content I'm sometimes a willing victim. I'll give SotL credit for good acting and a good mystery that needs a solution, but they lost me when Claire most unprofessionally blunders into Bill's lair with no backup. Its a totally rookie move made to appear necessary by the fiction of the story. The peculiar relationship between Lechter and Starling is the most interesting part of the movie.