Manhunter

St. George and The Dragon… Damn this is perfect. Whatever you pursue you must become more like. To chase is to imitate, to literally step where your prey has stepped before. If you imitate something enough times, you become it. You have to confront the dragon without being consumed by it. I have been looking for a movie to fully realize this symbolic connection for quite some time and I really wasn’t expecting to find it here. I’m very pleased. Also surprisingly accurate on the forensics side of things. More accurate than silence of the lambs in a lot of ways. I almost forgot to mention the transcendent 80s music and visuals, but if you’re familiar with Michael Mann then you already know what you’re getting into. If you’re not familiar with his work, then I would suggest you become so very rapidly. Maybe there are some movies I’ve rated lower that deserve 5 stars more than this, but this is getting 5 stars. It’s everything I’ve been looking for in this kind of movie. 10/10 “You want the scent, smell yourself.”