Being a gifted director, Ridley Scott delivers with "Hannibal" a technically perfect movie with extremely macabre scenes. Unfortunately, the movie is completely void of content. Scott has succeeded in making the character of Hannibal Lecter and his relationship with Clarice Starling totally incredible. The emptiness of the movie is filled with extremely violent scenes.
At least, this shows how ridiculous censorship has always been and always will be. Being a fan of Italian horror movies, my list of favourite movies in this genre is almost identical to the one of movies banned in Germany. Now, I am sitting in a movie theatre watching Anthony Hopkins performing surgery on an open brain and frying part of the brain in a pan, and this is now allowed, just because a big studio is behind it.
At least, this shows how ridiculous censorship has always been and always will be. Being a fan of Italian horror movies, my list of favourite movies in this genre is almost identical to the one of movies banned in Germany. Now, I am sitting in a movie theatre watching Anthony Hopkins performing surgery on an open brain and frying part of the brain in a pan, and this is now allowed, just because a big studio is behind it.
