After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
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During Clarice's visit near the beginning of the film, it is briefly mentioned that Mason Verger sexually abused children prior to the film's events; nothing relating to this is shown on-screen.
Don't know if it counts, but some boars are raised to attack humans that scream to prepare them to eat human flesh, thing that actually happens in the second part of the movie. Quite gruesome scenes.
Yes. A dead pigeon in found on the street, and a character takes it and sets it outside for the other pigeons to grieve over. He then gently brings it inside. It is unknown what happens to it next. (Lecter also mentions roller pigeons some of whom dive and hit the ground.)
Mason Verger is described to have sexually abused children. Also there is a scene towards the end, where the main character, Clarice, wakes up with a nice dress. It's implied that another character that sometimes showed some kind of interest in her, has changed her while she was unconscious. It's not talked about nor shown, but it could make someone uncmfortable. Definitely worth saying that Clarice is also kissed by someone while she is handcuffed, after a few minutes
In once scene a character is bound and gagged with duct tape, and is breathing heavily. In another scene, someone is wearing Hannibal Lecter’s mask and mentions that he “can’t breathe”, but rather dramatically. It is taken off immediately then. In another scene, a character falls face first in the dirt, unable to roll over, and struggles to breathe.
Amputation of an hand at the end of the movie. It's not shown on camera tho. Also some boars eats human flesh, "amputating" in some way/ripping apart some people, quite graphic.
No, but there is severe facial disfiguration, and a character’s mouth is deformed. Their lips are missing, but their teeth are intact and uninjured, although not always visible to the point where it looks like they are missing.
Dr. Lecter chops off his hand with a knife in order to escape handcuffs. In an earlier scene, Mason Verger describes his plan to torture Dr. Lecter by allowing boars to eat his feet, though this plan later falls through.
One of the character is heavily implied to be Lgbt+ and they die in the movie. Imo their death is not the annoying part, what can be annoying is the depiction of the only (that we know) Lgbt+ character as a pedophile and sadistic person too. This serie of movies is not well known for its good representation of Lgbt+ characters (for ex. Silence of the lambs), let's say that
Mason Verger makes a comment about how his father founded a "Christian" camp for "children who weren't wanted and would do anything for a candy bar". He also admits to having previously sexually assaulted and abusing children after his own childhood. Leading to that his father may have molested him as well as other children under his care.
Right in the beginning around 9 minutes in, there is a shootout, and an officer is hit by a car and ultimately killed. He is seen being struck by the car, and blood is seen on the windshield.
Yes, lots throughout the film (too much to specify). One part that is particularly disturbing: a man is sitting at a table and the top of his scalp is taken off while he’s alive. Part of his brain is removed, fried, and fed to him.