A Lurking Lecter in our Heads
“Serial killers usually keep something from their victims as trophies. ... ”(Lecter) “No, you eat yours.”(Clarice) In this conversation between Lecter and Clarice, Lecter identifies himself with other serial killers unblushingly. His ruthless brutality, equipped with an extraordinary acumen, makes Lecter an overarching villain in the history of movies. Being a strange amalgamation of our darkest desires and sharpest acumen, Lecter illustrates that aggressiveness and intellectual faculty are two kindred qualities divergent in destination, the former leads us to destruction whereas the latter leads us to creation. That is to say, Lecter is simply an instrument of the director urging the audience to look deep within oneself.
Dr Lecter is a peeping hole to our darkest desires and natures, namely violence and lust. When Clarice first visits Lecter, she has to enter the dark and dungeon-like prison. ... The prison is in fact a labyrinth of our darker desires, with Lecter’s cell at the very end of it, as suggested by the guard’s remark,” He’s past the others, the last cell.” As a result, we know that Lecter represents the inmost, darkest desires of the human heart. ... And there, at the very end, Clarice encounters Lecter. The first appearance of Lecter is a neat old man standing upright with a totally relaxed composure, uttering “Good morning” to Clarice. With knowledge of his brutal acts introduced beforehand, we see that Lecter is completely at ease with his own evilness and brutality. ... But the NATURE of Lecter’s aggressive deeds as well as being cannibalistic is intrinsic in all human beings. ... How much are these behaviours different in NATURE from those of Lecter? ... What makes Lecter a monster is he goes to the extreme and indulges too much in his primitive desires, like the way his cell is at the EXTREME end of the passage of our darker nature. ...
Besides, Lecter also indulges in his lustful, though perverse, imagination. ... Remember Lecter tells her it will be quite something to know her in her private life. ... When being told of the fact that Clarice ran away from her uncle, suspicions of all sorts of sexual abuses crops up in Lecter’s mind immediately, which proves to be a thousand miles from reality. Though it is common to have sexual desires, those of Lecter and his lustful imagination go too far and eventually deviate him from normality.
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