Another Internal Noise... please stop hurting children

Last Friday, Sam and I saw Hannibal Rising. I honestly didn't want to go, but she dragged me to it anyway. I've never seen any of the "Hannibal" movies: Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, or whatever the third one is. I'm not into the whole:

"I'm going to eat you now, [insert witty comment about eating you now]," says Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.

Yea, definitely not into the cannibalism and wit gag.

Basically I'm not into the cannibalism. I like witty remarks, just not the eating of people.

(I'm going for the world record of how many cannibalistic references I can make in a post.)

In the movie, young Hannibal witnesses his younger, extremely cute sister eaten by some hunger crazed Eastern European looters. Now, I realize that cannibalism was "popular" on the Eastern Front of World War II, but it doesn't sit well with me when:
1) The little sister's name is Micha. A family nick name that I have known since I was that little girl's age,

and 2) I didn't feel too hot when I realized what was going to happen to little Micha. Imagine my horror when I realized she looked almost identical to the sweet baby girl I've babysat for since she was born and is now about Micha's age.

Now, not only is the act terrible, but I see the little cutie pie up there. It made me so queasy I almost left. Ugh.

I'm reading a lot of young adult books in my Adolescent Literature class. One of them is about some young guys in Vietnam. I'm sure everyone is aware of the events during that war/massacre, whatever you want to call it. The guys in this particular squad are on one of the "peace" missions in a local village. One of the guys wants to make a doll for some kids that have strolled into the village with their "mother". As our guy walks over to hand the doll to the kids, the woman picks up one of the kids and puts him into another soldier's arms.

The kid and the soldier explode into tiny pieces. They kill the woman and the other child blows up. Our soldier guy drops the doll and walks away.

I read this not a day after Hannibal Rising. Then another baby dies in another book I'm reading for the same class.

I definitely do not like this string of events. I would like whatever cosmic joker, who is pulling this off, to stop. No more dead babies please. It's depressing and horrible.

Give a girl a break.