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Hannibal Rising

2007 · 121 min

A cold, brooding descent into vengeance, visually elegant but emotionally distant, with moments of shocking brutality.

Tagline: It started with revenge.
Overview: 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 and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate
How it feels: Dark, bleak, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Revenge, trauma, grief, identity
Content: Strong violence and gore. Mild sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: revenge
trauma
grief
identity
violence
Places: countryside
big city
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild