Obviously, the director wants to use the Silence of the Lambs to make a better film beyond the Silence of the Lambs. I want to go beyond the continuation of the classics and make the villain more perverted. The villain here is not only Buffalo Bill's perversion, but also Hannibal's transcendence of human beings and the existence of superior IQ. The director must be thinking that the fusion of the two perverts of the Silence of the Lambs must be good enough to surpass the former. But the result is that these two images are not well blended together. Instead, it makes people look weird and like a psychopath. The superiority he wants to express is so ridiculous, like a paranoid. madman. Before that, Hannibal's superior intelligence and slightly neurotic cannibalistic attitude gave the audience a charming Satan-like feeling in Hannibal. And Francis here feels divided. He speaks stupid and arrogant words like a lunatic but is rigidly defined as Hannibal's heir, worships Hannibal, and continues his cannibalism, but his cannibalism But it is only limited to appearances, and it does not treat human beings as inferior creatures like Hannibal. Cannibalism is the salvation or destruction of evil. At the same time, Francis has inherited the madness of Buffalo Bill, but he doesn't seem to have Bill's perversion. First of all, from Ralph's eyes and performance, it is really difficult for me to capture the perverted feeling. Ralph is very rational, he can A pervert, but definitely not a low-level childish pervert who was abused as a child and couldn't accept his appearance. Moreover, it is extremely unreasonable for such a pervert to possess the wisdom of Hannibal and the pride of despising all beings. So the entire villain's image can only be defined by the audience as a lunatic who ran out of a mental hospital. He's not even as good as Buffalo Bill, who acts and thinks as a whole, feels reasonable to the audience, and is rough enough to be crazy and perverted. Of course, it can’t be compared with Hannibal. In one paragraph, he even sent Hannibal a letter written on toilet paper. Perhaps the director wanted to establish Francis’ omnipotent wisdom as a god and Hannibal. , but in such a fragmented and incomplete image, it feels incredible and unbelievable. In the end, Francis became a pervert who wasn't perverted enough.
And the whole movie seems to be fragmented. The three male protagonists are self-contained, and they feel that the connection is not close enough. Most of them are so long and boring and lack motivation. Here Hannibal has become a mouth-watering existence, losing the powerful charm of manipulating the overall situation in Silence of the Lambs. The director's ability is evident. The coherence is poor, and the story tension is not enough.
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