The film is on netflix so I saw the film. (actually I saw all of the films many many years ago, I just don't remember anything of it) notable changes that I care about: - the freddy lounds interview, no putting hand on freddy like a pet ... the whole setup feeling is much less obvious. Still Hannibal called it Will's murder. - the tiger scene, no touching of mouth. That matters to me... the heartbeat has the similar meaning, but the touching tiger teeth is more to the point. Fuller did it right, but of course, it is his 'favourite romance in literature' ( - the fire. No reba trying to overpower dolarhyde, no shots of reba trying to get out of the fire. Welllll they didn't have much time to develop Reba as well as in the series. - I'm not even going to mention the Molly parts because that's just totally different. there just isn't much Molly altogether. I do like the gentle slipping away of Molly very much in the book. I don't think Will 'looked like a man who's suffered irrevocable loss' in the teaching Molly to shoot scene! - the film has an interesting angle to Will's fear and how he responds to it. It's not contradictory to what the book implies, the sort of sensing the fear but going towards it ... but the film hardly shows the duality, where the a little sudden accuse from Hannibal on Will's responsibility on Freddy Lounds is like the only thing that made Will's murder-ish intension textual. But I didn't pick up much subtext on that. - Fuller used the text so to the fullest. Or the way Dancy said them makes a difference, idk. This refers to the 'you drew a man with a monster on his back' scene. - I just can't believe they didn't get a divorce after this version of ending, tbh. It's no less traumatising to Willy than the book. unbelievable.

Coincidentally, I was thinking of how beautifully accurate the bone arena of your skull is as the metaphor. The imagery. Arena, where humans enjoy suffering of their peer humans who they think are lesser for Reasons, using them as sacrifice to gods, populating the arena with their bones. The echo of the timeless love of blood and brutality that's inherently in your head. Now we refuse to look at those times, out of Decency / Civilisation. But we know it's there. No forts for things you truly love. I am surprised the show hasn't used any bone arena of skull imagery/shot transition? (well arguably every fwuh-pendulum is a bone arena of skull transition ((((((