This 1991 film swept all five top honors at the Academy Awards, and my personal take is resoundingly in concert: Superb script and acting, well-filmed and well-edited, and disturbingly plausible story. If we feel that what we are watching can somehow happen to us, that film has a psychological impact. I am in awe of people (characters) who are so perspicacious as to see right through and inside you and so cunning as to manipulate you and bring you to your knees (rf. Iago, from `Othello). Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is such a person (character).
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