But the first and most formative of my cinematic crushes was Hannibal Lecter.
Meanwhile, her only real ally throughout the film is thisclassy cannibal that speaks in riddles.
I truly never stood a chance.
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I tried, and definitely failed, to replicate this class and grace through my own wardrobe.
“Good evening, Clarice.”
Andit wasn’t as though Hannibal had any room to judge me to begin withhe literally eats people.
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Obviously, I do not engage in cannibalism, nor have I ever wished to.
I knew my attraction to womenthe way I dressed and styled my hairwas transgressive.
For me,there was little comfort in assurances of validity.
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Despite this, I considered myself lucky that it wasn’t worse.
I imagined Dr. Lecter would find my assailants moronic and lacking in decorum.
I didn’t tell a soul.
Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
That doesn’t go away just because it was formative for me or anyone else.
