Ray had a funny shaped head!

So, earlier this week, I finally got to watch this movies from beginning to end. Somehow, I have only caught beginning and middle of it over last 15 years.
The scene you refer is pretty disgusting. The scene I cannot un-see is the one with RLiotta character w/top of skull removed. I have had nightmares on three of four night after watching it on Monday. It actually made me throw up.
If I even picture the scene, still get physically ill. Wish I had never seen it.

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Yes!! Showing him with a jar of Beluga caviar and only one flipper to try and open it with, definitely went too far!!!
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

The final scene made the impact, I believe, the director wanted to make. Hannibal gave the child an opportunity to try something different. The child was all in leaving the audience feeling squeamish about the child eating the cooked brains of a human. Yuck!

So what if a child has eaten human brain? Is eating abimal brain any different?
Of couse I'm against killing people, but I also opose killing animals.
And eating the ones you had nothing to do when they died, I see no difference.

He doesn't "make" the kid do anything. The kid asks twice. If anything, he tries to discourage him at first.

It doesn't go too far because the characters do not make you believe that what is happening is real. It's such a bad movie that I didn't care for any of them.
The fact that Lecter makes a child eat a piece of brain looks more like a bad joke than something scary to me.

airplane food, which is actually pretty good?
Do you have horrible taste or fly on a better airline? I heard JapanAir has really good food.

I thought you were referring to the Liotta scene, to which I would say yes, it did. The one with the child on the airplane, well, where the heck were his parents? How were they not able to feed him? If you don't get fed from them, at that age, you go in search of something, to which he found something to be fed by. But what child would have trouble eating airplane food, which is actually pretty good?

A kid eating something nasty in a film will never be "Went too far" compared to any type of murder in a film. So in your opinion it is more acceptable to see a series of brutal murder and extreme gore than to see a kid eating something nasty?

considering the book had Starling and Lector running away together as lovers, I'd say no.

No. It was a relatively tame scene.

Well, to clarify, I'm not saying it's immoral necessarily to put certain content in films.
As far as horror films go, I think there is a fine line between scenes that are effective in creating a sense of fear and suspense, and those that serve only to deliver shock value.
Good horror films try to creep you out. Bad horror films try to make you throw up.
Of course you're free to entertain yourself any way you want

But there are some things that just don't need to be committed to film
Do you have a for instance? I'm struggling to think of anything really. My own personal view is that if a thing exists, or happens, why would it NOT be ok to commit it to film?
It's a little bit like saying some things shouldn't be talked about

Dude, it's an Asian kid. They eats all sorts of strange looking sea life.

Yep yep

LOL.
Well said. I do not see how it can be going too far. If the kid doesn't know what it is and never will because he will probably forget about it, then who cares? What does it hurt?
I am not a cannibal (wait - that's pathetic that I have to point that out), but I honestly doesn't see it being that much worse than eating cats and dogs and other intelligent mammals. And like it was mentioned a couple of times in the film, Hannibal usually eats rude or discourteous people. He is performing a service to human society. Yep yep.

Well, he's a very unusual boy, isn't he?
Wait a minute who am I here?

Im just not sure why the kid thought it looked good. Looked pretty disgusting to me without even knowing what it is. I don't know of any kid that would think that looked good.

It would be far cheesier. Better suited for an 80's Arnold movie than a line from Hannibal Lecter.

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How about "eat up, this is brain food!"

I agree. Except I thought his closing remark "It's important to always try new things" seemed rather dull and insipid for someone of Dr. Lecter's acumen. I think a far more humourous and poignant end note would have been for him to say something like, "As my mother used to tell me, you are what you eat."