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Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head

Silence Of The Lambs (1991) Dir: Jonathan Demme

Amputate A Man's Leg And He Can Still Feel It Tickling. Tell Me, Mom, When Your Little Girl Is On The Slab, Where Will It Tickle You?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/

http://mentalfloss.com/uk/trivia/27360/18-facts-about-the-silence-of-the-lambs

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/silence-of-the-lambs-at-25-it-broke-all-the-rules-20160212

http://www.filmsite.org/sile.html

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-silence-of-the-lambs-1991

http://dramatica.com/analysis/the-silence-of-the-lambs

hannibal barbie parallels

Pink being both of their most iconic colors, both fashionistas impeccably dressed in bespoke intricate shiny patterned clothes

2. They both have/ had sisters

3. Both hold multiple jobs but do them with surprising ease that earns them an incredible amount of societal respect/ jealousy.

4. Blonde

5. Dreamhouse

6. Lavish social circle

7. Has a pet like boyfriend

Hannibals core traits ultimately veer off of Barbie category because he's an archetypical strong independent Working mother and wife and he's groundbreaking for that, for wanting that white picket fence nuclear murder family so badly.

Whereas Barbie was groundbreaking because she'd never have kids or marry ken so this is where their similarities end.

I wonder

what specific reason did hannigram speak to y'all

Something I see quite often some sort of mandatory acknowledgement of Hannibal's abuse before one makes a joke about him because God forbid you do not appear to have done a PhD on the complexities of abuse patterns and interpersonal relationships in the womb. God forbid you have something to learn and I see a blatant erasure of Will's victimhood simply because he has also killed. It's an incredibly Catholic mentality to want your victims to suffer at the stake as the embodiment of serenity and forgiveness when it's often not how real victimhood manifests at all. I think we're often afraid of seeing the powerlessness of Will in certain situations because it runs the risk of falling into homophobic tropes, we're afraid the acknowledgement of abuse might sour the romance of it all. We can let our need for reciprocity from Will blur out the journey of it how it came to be.

Will's journey of being abused and coming out the other side spoke to me because it's seldom a big bad random man. Its often someone you trust and love. And love more than anyone else in the world, half through your own choice of feeling broken and distant your whole life and finding someone who seems to understand and half through them slowly isolating you. Planting seeds of doubt in your mind about your friends , by showing you how civil society is just another word for fair weather friends . You see it when you fall down and everyone seemed to take a step back. And there comes the Knight in Shining Armour to the rescue, even though he's the one who pushed you. Rescuing from the isolation he half manufactured to show you it's only you and him. Everyone else is fickle. You tell people what they did and no one seems to understand the gravity of the pain, except Him. You conclude He must understand what he did. Why else would he try to hide it. He knows how you feel. (he doesn't)

And in that ostracised isolation from civil society and the glistening hand of the Knight in Shining Armour who you Know now is also the witch who poisoned you , you begin to find your only friend the second time. This time by a resigned choice of having no other option. You resent them, but you also love them. And only them. This love and resentment turns monstrous and takes a life of its own. You fall down the path of vengeance biting anything you see in your way. And feeling a earth shatteringly ferocious jealousy when your Knight shows you he may have isolated you because he feels empty and convinced you, only you make him whole, but he did not isolate himself. He still has everyone but you only have him. If you cannot be whole again. If you cannot fit in civil society again, the least you could be is special in His eyes, but if even he won't put you first you will kill.

He created a secret world for you and the rules there are warped and turned upside down, yes. But you're the King there and you won't have anyone else in your world. But your warped love for him won't turn you into him, you cannot shed your conscience like snakeskin. You cannot make it stop hurting after the glee of the kill. So you try to find a way, to live in that secret word forever. It doesn't work.

I would rather people would read it as a blatant romance than see abuse as a mathematical competition where one act cancels out another. I would urge you to not be afraid ,to close your eyes and let the magic of the show speak to you. You might learn something about yourself and the world.