In this same sense, though, Hannibal the Cannibal and Clarice of the Cannibalized Psyche are magnetically-attracted (although most unlikely, or so it seems at first but that soon enough makes perfect sense) soul mates. [Yes, even human monsters that could and would eat us alive have souls.]. And it is this cannibal in a cage that slowly makes it possible for the true Clarice who is still locked-down inside her own labyrinth of psychological cages, to begin to give birth to her own scar-swaddled yet still fully authentically self. This is Hannibal's human love and his self-regeneration at once. Here in particular, Demme's implication is a feminist one. But it is also a universal one. A woman may give birth to her true self. But sometimes a man, and even the most unlikely among them at that, can help in that process, and in some cases (this is one, Demme...
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