I'll Never know

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'Hannibal' played yesterday on the USA channel and I TIVO'd it. I'm a fan of Anthony Hopkins and 'Silence of the Lambs'; so when this sequel came out I saw it at the local flick. It hit me immediately that this movie was essentially an anti-circumcision movie. One of the main characters was circumcised from the neck up and from the ears forward. The result was as debilitating to him socially as penile circumcision is debilitating to its victims sexually, and naturally he seeks revenge.

I was so amazed by this movie that I went to the library and checked out the book. The book is even more anti-circ than the movie. I wrote about this in my (tap) drog some years ago. Two features of the movie struck me as particularly interesting: in the movie the villian (the facial circumcate) is eaten by pigs, and Ray Liota has a role where Hannibal Lecter samples his brain in the gastronomical sense. Both these scenes were hilarious (to me): In the first case, because I had once fantasized in my drog about chopping up Walter Gerash and feeding him to pigs, then collecting the resulting piggie poop and shipping it home to his family in a body bag for burial, and in the second case because one of the characters' real names matched mine (Ray). I always wondered whether the contents of my drog had found their way into the book and later the movie. I'll never know.