Hannibal has always been a man with excellent mind control, and it seems that he has transcended all the limitations of human inferiority. He admires rationality, intelligence, and appreciates classical literature and music (remember the Gothenburg variation of his background when he was locked up in a cage, Bach’s music is recognized as the most rational), and he must be more passionate about the beauty of classical tragedy than earthly life The beauty of pleasure. So Stellan is undoubtedly the typical image he likes: rational, strong, clean, self-esteem, sensitive, and because of the shadow of childhood or her nature, she has a strong melancholy temperament and the beauty of loneliness in isolating people. A little nervousness can also please one. Psychiatric doctor. So Hannibal should have been moved by her at first sight.
However, what finally made Hannibal fall in love with Stellan was undoubtedly the story of the "screaming lamb", which was so idealistic and symbolic that it had a certain fable. That kind of compassion and love for human sufferings made Stellan exude the beauty of holiness and martyrdom, and it also made Hannibal repeatedly explore her story and was deeply shocked. Hannibal has always been steadfast in analyzing people's hearts, and Stellan is an exception. He once speculated that she might have been sexually abused by relatives or wanted to escape from a poor and barren childhood, etc., and so on, no matter what kind of trauma was ultimately limited to her specific unfortunate fate. Self-injury due to bad luck is the universality of human beings. Even if it is reasonable and reasonable, it seems a little superficial after all, because it still can't escape the scope of personal worries, gains and losses, and the tragedy brought by it bears the mark of specific experience. And the truly profound tragedy should be a kind of more universal existence, not relying on this kind of appearance, based on the trembling of the origin of life. It needs to put aside the emotional self-exhaustion, and resonate with it with a rational and simple soul.
So Stellan’s story was far beyond Hannibal’s expectation. She saw the suffering of other creatures, grieved for them, and gave up everything to save them. This kind of realm is rarely achieved by anyone. To be exaggerated, there is a kind of Christ that bears the burden. The consciousness of the cross. So Hannibal sighed infinitely and gently, "Thank you, Stellan." I think the last half sentence he didn't say should be "Thank you, Stellan, you restored me a little bit of confidence in human beings." So "the world has become more interesting because of you." The only physical contact between the two in the film is the light touch of the index finger, which reminds people of Michelangelo’s famous mural "Genesis". God's finger points to Adam, and since then the spirit of God and man is connected. , This passage in the film may hint at a subtle change in the relationship between Hannibal and Stellan.
The dialogue between the two of them through the iron cage is my favorite part of the whole play. The delicate performance and the deep music are very touching. There were a lot of very symbolic dialogues. Stellan said that at first she wanted to release the lambs, but they "don't know how to escape, just stood there in confusion and didn't want to go." These lambs are so similar to the dull world. Even if they are given the freedom of the body, they are still prisoners of their own souls. They say that the strong save themselves and the saints cross others, but most mediocre people don't know how to escape the tragedy of life, even sad. I didn't realize that I was in a tragedy, with only a fragile heart and a wandering soul, constantly wandering outside the gates of heaven, constantly indulging in pain, and constantly screaming dying inside. And all this cruelty is covered by a colder silence between heaven and earth...just like sung in "The Sound Of Silence", when silence becomes a kind of sound, it makes the world mistakenly think that everything is normal. But tear away this layer of appearance. Isn’t it a blazing hell execution ground before our eyes? The pain and heaviness of life will fall on everyone's head without prejudice, just like Stellan said, "they are too heavy."
Did Stellan really hear the "scream" of the lamb when she was a child? I think the answer is probably no (only movies). It's winter night, everyone is sleeping, but the butchers shouldn't start work. How could the hum of a few weak lambs be so big that they awakened Stellan in the room? ? Why can't other people hear this sound? So this "scream" is probably an abstract intention, a voice that only exists in Stellan's heart, and it will be more like a nightmare when she is an adult, echoing again and again. This is the symbolism used in the film. The title tells us that "Lambs have always been the most silent animal", and only in the eyes of Stellan they are constantly crying for help and struggling because of suffering. In the final analysis, this is because she has a unique and sensitive heart for understanding the world.
With sensitivity several times that of ordinary people and compassion several times that of ordinary people, Stellan is not destined to be a happy person. In Hannibal's sketch, she was dressed in white, with a lamb in her arms, her eyes seemed gentle but exuded a kind of desolate and determined power. The image was quite similar to that of the Virgin.
In fact, if we talk about the topic of "strong" and "weak", is each of us not a "weak" in the face of nature and destiny? And the world itself may be the greedy eyes that Hannibal said. People descended into the world with the original sin called desire, and unknowingly, they pour into each other to form an invisible and huge net. Everyone is both the giver and the victim of the evil; both greedy peeping. Also fleeing in horror; both a sinner and a victim, there is no escape, no escape. Like poor bad boy Bill, like the man looking at Stellan at the airport, like the male policemen who show contempt, like you and me.
Perhaps, in Hannibal’s eyes, human beings are all miserable beings, struggling to survive for their own interests, but cannot escape the butcher knife of fate, and will eventually be swallowed ruthlessly by life, just like a stupid and terrified lamb waiting to be slaughtered, ignorant, numb and pitiful. sad. It can be said that Hannibal has been looking down on humans with a kind of cold reason, just like a ruthless god. God does not know what benevolence is, and regards everything as a dog, and cannot change the tragedy of mankind, so he is indifferent. Until he met Stellan, the shepherd who was sensitive to human tragedies because of her natural sensitivity, but was crying to save even a lamb, this thin and weak girl who tried to carry all the sufferings in the world on her shoulders. Two people have both similar and completely opposite sides. Therefore, Hannibal's love for Stellan is not only a sympathy for each other, but also a guardian of the beautiful soul of the alien.
"Brave Clarice, if one day your lamb stops screaming, will you come and tell me?" If this world really becomes heaven one day, even the cruel god will be a little moved, right?
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