SotL = 30 years old today
Wouldn't even be made today. Already some folks label it as an Anti-Trans film. I think its a great film especially Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal
shareReally? How can anyone take a Welshman so seriously?
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People bitch about something in
every movie. This doesn't push the boundaries that much. They'd still make it today.
I disagree. Buffalo Bill being trans and a serial killer would have the Alphabet people bitching endlessly. They really have become worse than religious nuts were generations ago
shareAgain, movies get made every day with people bitching about something. Yes, they'd bitch, but the complaining has become so constant, its just becoming background noise. Mark my words, the PC movement is about to come crashing down, and it's already started. Nothing stats constant, and when one side overreaches, its been known throughout human history that the other side will push back in multitudes.
shareWe’ve been waiting for the pushback for years, but Wokists have infiltrated government and even HR departments at the highest levels, so you get fired and cancelled if you don’t show allegiance. They’ve seized Orwellian levels of control and show no signs of relinquishing it.
shareIt was the first 'adult' as in 18-rated film I saw at the cinema, so this milestone made me feel very old. When I last saw SOTL a couple of years ago, it had lost none of its power.
shareLecter, who is, for all his other defects, always depicted as a genius and an extraordinarily insightful psychologist/psychiatrist, specifically states in the movie that "Billy is not a transexual".
It is much harder (but certainly not impossible) to get a movie made today that is consciously racist, sexist, or otherwise conforms to or pushes a harmful stereotype, and rightly so. SOTL does not. That's not to say it would not anger some people, but it also attracted protests when it was released in 1991. The most powerful demographic in the world still includes many people who are racist, sexist or prejudiced in other ways. The idea that these people are unjustly suffering at the hands of political correctness, wokeness or whatever other uncodified umbrella term you want to use, is pretty difficult to sustain. The reason people who are considered "woke" are so seemingly visible/audible is that the world itself does not reflect their outlook and hence they feel the need to protest.
"The idea that these people are unjustly suffering at the hands of political correctness, wokeness or whatever other uncodified umbrella term you want to use, is pretty difficult to sustain."
Idiotic statement. You haven't been paying attention.
Can you explain what you mean? I can barely make sense of anything WhiteHotel said in the first place
shareYeah, because the mere fact that someone happens to be a transgender also magically turns that person into an enlightened, nonviolent being who's unable to harm or even kill anyone. Ridiculous.
shareIt's still an absolutely great movie.
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