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I watched Silence of the Lambs in a literature class last semester, and the point you pulled out here was one of the things we spoke the most about. The film structures the characters in such a way that it somehow brainwashes the audience into rejoicing or at least laughing at the end of the film when Hannibal says that he’s having an old friend for dinner – however, upon closer reflection, we realize that no matter how you slice it, Hannibal’s crimes of killing and quite literally eating people are much worse than Chilton’s crimes of just being arrogant and misogynistic. It would probably take more of a psychoanalyst than I am to figure out how we all fall prey to such twisted scopophilia – so this is less of an answer to your questions than support for them being valid!