tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post9047451964602121884..comments2024-03-28T10:11:40.572-04:00Comments on VISUP: The Silence of the Magicians Part IIReclusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13510266038933358020noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-1473074610656975552013-02-05T00:04:56.143-05:002013-02-05T00:04:56.143-05:00Kind of reminds me of Rocky and Bullwinkle where B...Kind of reminds me of Rocky and Bullwinkle where Bullwinkle as a Magician says, Hey Rocky, want to see me pull a rabbit out of my hat? Then finds he's pulled something out he didn't expect and says, Oops, wrong hat! Something for some people to think about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-19690867370315683482012-04-17T13:51:09.122-04:002012-04-17T13:51:09.122-04:00men are very sick and have made our planet sickmen are very sick and have made our planet sickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4891114758163865289.post-8027468272501072762011-10-19T21:21:58.147-04:002011-10-19T21:21:58.147-04:00***BOOK SPOILER AHEAD***
Great assessment of the ...***BOOK SPOILER AHEAD***<br /><br />Great assessment of the movie, but the book is different. Boyle is not mutilated in such a way...he is left alive in an elevator shaft, Hannibal knowing the SWAT team will assume it's him. So they shoot, at Boyle. <br /><br />Hannibal in Silence knows exactly who the killer is all along...because he treated an "associate" of Jame Gumb's who gave Hannibal a head to keep in his freezer. The head had the moth in it. So he knows to give those details because he is personally third-person acquainted with the killer. He doesn't ask about the "moth or butterfly" out of some symbolic genius...but because he had the head in his freezer. The entire book has Hannibal toying with law enforcement, much like Crowley did. Crowley buries truths in riddles, much like alchemists, and when you uncover them, you learn that much more deeply. Same with Hannibal. From a magical point of view, I see Hannibal as the modern Apep, chowing down on humanity's "garbage." Notice Hannibal refuses to personally consume "normal" food, have "normal" things...it's all gourmet, the best. It is a process of proving worth, and most can't. From an alchemical point of view, Jame Gumb--not James, so androgynous--is creating a true overself. Unfortunately, not peeling away the layers of his own self and doing the needed inner work, he is making an overself of "selves" outside of him. It's a corrupted alchemy.Chryse Wymerhttp://chryse-wymer.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com