Hannibal

In April 2020, I watched Hannibal on DVD. It was released in 2001. Ridley Scott directed it. I watched it for the first time on TV around in 2003. I have not seen a more realistic and grotesque scene than that shocking one in the movie. I am happy that I have not, though. 

The movie is the sequel to The Silence of the Lamb. It follows the interactions between Clarice, a FBI agent, and Dr. Lecter, a homicidal maniac, who several persons approach and become involved with. 

I like Sir Ridley Scott but I preferred the prequel. It maybe was absence of Jodie Foster in it. I thought that Julianne Moore as Clarice was good and beautiful, however, I felt that she seemed to be an actress of all trades and not so stricken. In a horrifying dinner, she looked fascinated in a sexy black dress but did not sexually attract me so much. Of course, she is pretty and if she worked as a waitress in a restaurant or an instructor in an enrichment lesson in my neighborhood, I would like to go see her like every day. 

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Lecter gave a wonderful performance, which made me almost shudder again, as well as he did in 1991. The performance is artistic like the one Jack gave in The Shinning. In the dinner scene toward the end, which is cut when TV stations broadcast it, he was naturally playing the horrific man. It quite terrified me. 

As for Ray Liotta, he definitely became fat compared with him in Field of Dreams and Goodfella. He was 46 years old at the release. He had not become a movie superstar maybe because he had not been able to quit boozing, eating too much and something, and as a result, he could not keep a good figure. It is up to you whether or not you like to constantly make extra efforts to keep yourself good-looking, though. To oblige yourself to limit your meals so as to continue to be popular, or to accept your aging and enjoy your life, that is the question. I will choose to accept my aging, after all, even if I by some chance have the potential to be a big star. I hate to be bitter. I am such a man, so I have ordinarily lived and not gotten a big chance at all.