#srsly why is talking to people so hard. why is my brain so silly

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it's ironic that, for someone who is able to speak several languages, my ability to verbally communicate disappears really often

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Wow, silence of the lambs fuckin sucks

Like all i'd ever heard of it was it was "a classic" ans i guess like most "classics" its just revolutionary for being the first example of a genre or something and now it just looks like a bigoted pile of shit unless you brace yourself with eighteen hours of "oh but its a classic tho" before pressing play

Like how did NOBODY EVER MENTION that the villain of the movie is literally a trans woman? A scary trans woman who kills "real" women to make a literal skin suit out of them. Also everyone constantly calls her a man throughout the film and like the only way they try to weasel out of it is by saying "some other transsexuals said he's bad, he's more badder and more not real and we're not saying all transsexuals are bad even though the entirety of this plot is him being scary because he's transsexual and being a threat to women because he's transsexual" Like straight up the plot is that she started murdering people because she was refused for transition surgery through legitimate means. And they try and play it like "oh the doctors Just Knew that this wasnt a real transsexual it was one of those Fetish Transsexuals hey we totally acknowledged there are some good ones so we're allowed to continue now right?" Like fuckin... "Oh this character isnt evil because theyre trans BUT theyre scary because they dress as a woman ans they kill woman because of being trans and we're constant gonna call them by their birth sex and not the name they chose because i guess we only respect trans people's truth if theyre The Good Ones". Like seriously whenever you call a bad trans person by their birth sex youre just showing that you dont really believe we're real and you just consider using our correct pronouns as some sort of white lie you do because you think we deserve it, and anyone who doesnt deserve it gets your goddamn honesty...

Like srsly i know that the whole "transsexual" thing was an actual sign of the times but i dont think the rest is, i think its just straight up "ha ha gross trans for scary shock value" lowest common denominator bullshit.

Also i honestly dont see the appeal in the main plot and i dont see why it became a classic except that its one of those cynical 'all humans are assholes and optimism is naive and can be totally broken ha see youre totally just as bad as us" things.

Cos the whole point is just... Bad guy threatens a lady for several hours. Manages to dismantle her entire worldview just by saying I AM BAD AND I ENJOY IT and TELL ME UR SAD BACKSTORY in like.. Overly eloquent ways i guess? Like what is even meant to be shocking about him yo, he's just the same as any other douchebag internet troll or for example my abusive father. And his entire fuckin argument is just the stupid idea that "being a psychologist makes you crazy and evil because ur talkin to lots of crazy people and theyre automatically evil and somehow its contagious". Like srsly why does that always get treated as "what an interesting point"?? So the movie is just this horrid irredeemable creepy asshole saying "oh i was a good guy once and talking to someone with a mental illness gave me an entirely different unrelated mental illness oooo im gonna give it to ya" Also "the fundemental truth of the world is being bad and selfish and killin dudes just for the jollies." And creepy ass critics say "wow he had a point wow what grey morality" and like ok thanks glad for the warning that youre someone i should be terrified of

And then the film just ends with him successfully leaving the protagonist all traumatized and more willing to make morally grey choices so OOOO he really did MAGICALLY PASS ON THE BRAIN DISABILITY I GUESS Ans also he got free and he's gonna go off on his jolly little way i guess. The only consolation that makes that less awful is the hope that it was just meant to be a scary ending and not really "he is right, stop hoping about anything good in the world and just go fuckin apeshit. Also trans women are somehow scarier than me somehow."

Blehh. I dont get it!

Is it literally only a classic cos the dialogue is all flowery when he talks his evil bullshit?

Also LOL after having that "fava beans and a nice cianti" scene hyped up i wasnt prepared for how unscary it is. Dear god he made such a silly noise and licked the window! That actor is trying way too hard holy shit what a good laugh omg