One is Chris, an inexperienced but ambitious FBI special police student, and the other is Hannibal, a rational, elegant, knowledgeable, but cannibalistic psychology professor. The age difference of more than 20 years between them is not an obstacle to their "love" at all. They are like sophisticated businessmen. Although they covet the advice that each other can provide, they exchange information with each other cautiously. Their communication is full of secret codes, in the name of riddles that others can't understand. There are no flowers and roses when ordinary men and women date. Instead, they take turns telling their own stories. The affection between them cannot be simply described by love, but the hand in hand across the iron fence really makes people imagine infinitely.
The thing that moved me the most in the film was the unfathomable psychology professor and ogre Hannibal. Maybe the bloody scene of his cannibalism really made me shudder, but it didn't get rid of his attraction to me. Cannibalism aside, he is knowledgeable and sensible, with a keen eye for identifying the brand of a person's favorite moisturizer just through the air, and an insight into someone's background just through the way they dress. He said that he hated impolite behavior, so when another prisoner Max molested Chrissy, he used few but mysterious words to trick Max into swallowing his tongue, making Max atone for his rude behavior. Hannibal's charm does not come from his handsome appearance, but from his gentleman's temperament, superior mind, and elegant demeanor. His understanding of people and reason has surpassed that of ordinary people. I am afraid that in his eyes, foreign objects are his interesting research. From this point of view, his feelings for Chris do not exist, only curiosity and excitement exist, and he just regards her as a different experiment.
And the beginning of all the stories in the film, the real murderer of a series of serial murders - Buffalo Bill's positioning is very funny. As a clue to the film, he is not the protagonist, and his appearance in the nearly two-hour film does not exceed fifteen minutes. This made me tired of Hong Kong-made police and gangster films, and I saw a new perspective on the setting of suspense films.
In the end, if I were to classify it, I would prefer to classify it as a romance film rather than a horror film, after all, this is the protagonist of the story, a man and a woman, like a match made in heaven.
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