An absolutely amazing movie. What put this movie over the top for me was Anthony Hopkins performance. It was so mesmerizing, so chilling, I could not look away. It seemed so real, expressing the horror of such a monster, and yet introducing a subtle humanity to it. In a way, it was two movies in one, expressing two very different monsters in society, one completely real and one bordering on the absurd but made so real by the actor’s performance and the treatment of the character by the others.
This is the only movie that I have that left me at the end wanting more, going back and replaying scenes. Normally that only happens when I finish a good book.