We hear lambs screaming and there’s no one there
There was something oddly familiar about this image.
Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, barred from leaving the Philippines to seek medical treatment abroad, arrested on charges of electoral sabotage.
Then we remembered this. (Of course the resemblance had been noted by others but it just hit us.)
Hannibal Lecter, psychiatrist, cannibal, serial killer from Thomas Harris’s novels and their film adaptations.
Is there a conscious effort to equate the former president with the famous fictional cannibal? If so is it meant to evoke admiration or revulsion? Because we are conflicted about Hannibal. On one hand he eats people, on the other hand they’re people we hate; on one hand he is an abomination, on the other hand he is so civilized that he would eat a mediocre flutist to improve the orchestra.
On one hand we want the rule of law applied, on the other hand we don’t want to get fooled again. On one hand we believe in the separation of powers, on the other hand the powers have screwed us.
This is why we prefer the movies.
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November 21st, 2011 at 15:41
Meanwhile, this… similar GMA image has been making the rounds of FB (its privacy settings make the picture open to the public, whether with FB or not):
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2425148502478&set=a.1107418680056.18559.1064480576&type=1&theater
November 21st, 2011 at 17:59
Incisive analysis.
This is why I prefer Jessica’s blog over TV Patrol.
November 21st, 2011 at 18:13
Chos! Di nga sigurado kung saan papanig eh. Teka, TV Patrol? Hindi compliment yan hahahaha.
November 21st, 2011 at 18:47
Rumor is, she’s faking it. According to the nurses at St. Luke’s Taguig, she goes home at night, it’s all for show and a ploy to avoid prosecution.
November 22nd, 2011 at 13:21
Speaking of Hannibal, I read somewhere that Martha Stewart and Anthony Hopkins used to date but Martha broke off the relationship after watching The Silence of the Lambs.