:-) LOL! Thank you for the little Greek lesson. Funny how you've got a similar thing.
Do you mean the way the directors think or the way the protagonists in the film think? I do not really believe that there are any psychopaths who eat human flesh, or if there are, then in such small numbers that they do not need to bother us.
For me, such dark films and the fascination they exert on people are also a question that I cannot answer unequivocally. I think it is an exaggeration, a symbolism to express the dark in every human being. So my question to you is whether it's about assimilating other people... in the sense of mastering them, having absolute control...
In this respect I recognize myself in Hanibal Lecter, even if it is only in the figurative sense. ... Although this seems to disappear into the past and the cold manipulative strategy is not mine (and never had been, although a hint of it haunted me). I am interested in where we are manipulative without knowing it and the lies of ourselves and the illusion of our own benignity can still be uncovered. ... I hope that's not too much of an offhand thing.
... When writing I find it difficult to penetrate all facets of a character and to take into account the contradictions that a person unites in himself. Building tension is also an art, I see that you are concerned with it. Writing is very difficult as I find... but also fascinating, because you get to know yourself very well and you are forced to change your perspective like in a therapy, because you shouldn't draw all characters from one position.
Surely you have made the beautiful experience, how it is, if this succeeds...
What would you say, did you get to know a part of your personality while writing that was not clear to you before?
... I do not necessarily have to have answers to them, because they are very personal questions. You've just come on the spur of the moment.
In a film it is always the director's viewpoint you get, so you don't have much of a choice.
I was never the manipulative type (at least that was not my goal, although I have caught myself doing it from time to time, especially on a past boyfriend, this only came from a feeling of insecurity and low self-esteem, perhaps the fact that I consider my self somehow spoilt - as I was the firstborn child of the family - added to this).
What scares me the most is not that I am drawn to such dark deeds, but the fact that I can think of something as sick as this. When I write, I get into the scene, I try to hear, see, smell, even taste(?) what is there and this is disturbing at times.
And I don't think I got to meet or understand better a part of me; through my "depressive" pieces I know it is my tendency to cling to a depressive state of mind every once in a while. My romantic pieces come from an inner longing for romance. The sarcastic... it's just who I am, I sarcastic person. The dark, mysterious and "lethal" I believe are just a bet with myself: "be the bad guy you could and would never become, try to make stories like the ones you watched in those police series you enjoyed in the past".
But you got me into some further thinking now, thanks!! :D
:-) Thanks to you to let me know.
Your post from yesterday was really beautiful - this phenomena in Yosemite National park, the story, the film and the information in the end was a round piece.
Oh! Thank you!
And I feel bad for not making it to read your story yet (I surely haven't forgotten about it)