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Red Dragon (2002)
Good, but not excellent
Definitely better than Hannibal (which was farcical to say the least) but not nearly as good as The Silence of The Lambs. That being said, this is probably the closest the film industry is going to be able to get upon visiting Lechter once again. My main complaint with this movie is that I wish they had made it as good as the book. When I read that book, I was terrified. I actually had trouble sleeping at night. The movie did not give me that effect at all. It's entertaining, it does have some of the twists and turns but it misses the unknown magical factor that makes a movie go right over the top into near perfect. Jonathan Demme reached that height with Silence and it has not been reached since (or before) with all the rehashing of the FBI profilers and the infamous Dr.
Definitely not a waste of money, but don't go in with any comparisons of Silence in your head, or you'll end up frustrated.
4 Little Girls (1997)
An incredible film about an incredible tragedy
4 Little Girls broke my heart, completely. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't have a clue about this incident in history until I sat down and watched Spike Lee's film on it and to say I was horrified would be an understatement. It is both appalling and amazing to me that only 30 some odd years ago, a racial battle full of ignorance, pure meanness and death was playing itself out through many parts of the United States.
Spike Lee is at his best here. Never does he make the fatal mistake of showing any bias. Instead, he is factual, passionately involved and sincere in his undertaking and personalizes the town, the people, the victims, the feel of the time so well that one cannot walk away unchanged from this viewing experience. He let's the story gnaw away at your heart and your conscience and your sense of humanity and he does so flawlessly.
An incredible film - how incredibly sad that it is so because of such a tragedy.