Scarface
1983USA★ 8.23 pt match
Both films sit with figuring out who you are, rage, and shame. They share the same lens on class and money. Both move the same way too, brutal, bleak, and escalating.
Hannibal Rising
2007FranceLanguage: EnglishDirected by Peter Webber★ 6.3
Available in English: subtitled
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.
Themes and style
Tone
bleakhauntingcold and detachedbrutal
Pacing
slow burnescalating
Story
pursuitsurvivalunraveling
Emotion
griefrageloss of innocencefiguring out who you areshame
Themes
family wounds passed downcolonial historyclass and money
Feel
cerebralquietly hauntingdiscussion starter
Violence
graphicWhere to watch
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