Bones and All - Movie Review, Let's not be cannibals.

I recently watched Luca Guadagnino's (CMBYN, Suspiria) newest movie, "Bones and All" and it was...Something.

Imagine a love story between two outsiders who find solace in each other. The two characters share a bond due to a quirk they both share. Every line is beautifully written and performed; the shots are dramatic and full of longing.

Now imagine the quirk is cannibalism.

The movie, which started as a beautiful love story between two outcasts, now turns into a grotesque movie that invites you to sympathise with cannibals a la "Dahmer".
While I understand that the act of cannibalism can be a metaphor for any trait that makes someone isolated, are we seriously implying that they are all on the same level? An idea I see often is that the cannibalism/cannibalistic urges are a metaphor for addiction.

In what world is someone struggling with addiction morally or emotionally equal to a serial killer cannibal? I also see people saying it's a metaphor for being gay in the 80s, and my point still stands. Like, huh?

An example of a movie that gets the cannibalism metaphor right(sort of?) is Raw. While cannibalism is still this mystic, sensual thing in Raw, Raw does it better simply because it focuses on one person's story. Raw focuses the story on one girl and her coming-of-age.
While there are still problematic elements to this movie, it works better as a metaphor as it focuses on the struggle of this one girl. It's focused on her support system, her efforts and her acceptance.

Bones and All mainly tells the story of two cannibals but has many other sub-characters that are also cannibals. I feel like the metaphor is lost when it's stretched over this huge group of people that are all serial killer cannibals. Any empathy that we can feel for the main two is lost when we see that they are learning, enabling, and complicit in the crimes of the other characters.

It could've been much less problematic if it had spent less time trying to be a horror/thriller movie. The audience watches the other cannibals be evil and terrifying. We're expected to be scared of those cannibals, so why should we feel any different for our two main characters?

If it had focused its story around these two lovers and spent less time trying to scare you with the other cannibals, I feel as if the metaphor for the abject horror of being an outsider wouldn't have been lost in all of the blood and guts.

Overall, it's a bit misguided and not well-focused, but not bad. I guess.
However, maybe delay the release so it doesn't come out simultaneously as another mainstream cannibalism work (f*cking Dahmer).