I saw Red Dragon (2002) over the weekend because it was on TV. It’s a horror/thriller with investigative aspects and I found it surprisingly good plot-wise.

I don’t know why, but because I’d vaguely heard it was a prequel I was expecting something different from Silence of the Lambs. It wasn’t, though; very similar format, which was a good thing in this case because SotL was excellent.

There was just one detail at the end that I didn’t understand and needed to have explained to me. It concerned a substitution deception that wasn’t very well explained; or maybe it was the noisy people eating pizza, talking and texting in between me and the screen.

And there was a reference to William Blake’s Woman Clothed with the Sun, which I was able to explain to my brother just before it actually became plot-significant. Which was cool.

The film comes with a content warning for people with hangups similar to Suitov’s: Dolarhyde goes to the Brooklyn Museum, beats a museum secretary unconscious, and eats the original Blake watercolor of The Red Dragon. (from Wikipedia)

Fans of tattoos will like it.