http://ktheory.com/archives/2002/10/02/red-dragon-mini-review-no-spoilers/ is all about me Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:56:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://ktheory.com/archives/2002/10/02/red-dragon-mini-review-no-spoilers/comment-page-1/#comment-278 storythreats Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=550#comment-278 i agree with you on almost all the points. he tried to kill norton only because norton was the only one who could put him behind bars. i agree with you on almost all the points. he tried to kill norton only because norton was the only one who could put him behind bars.

]]> http://ktheory.com/archives/2002/10/02/red-dragon-mini-review-no-spoilers/comment-page-1/#comment-279 J Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=550#comment-279 Good question, actually. My take is that in Hannibal (the novel, at least - I haven't yet seen the movie version), we find out that Lecter's flesh fetish goes back to the last days of WWII, when his family estate was co-opted by starving Nazis retreating from the Russian front. There's no food, so they eat Lecter's sister. True to Thomas Harris's grotesque sensibilities, little Hannibal finds out in the most horrifying way possible: he finds her teeth in the bottom of the latrine pit. This experience is the acorn for his professional life (as brain doc) and his pathological life (the intertwining of intimacy and consumption - physical consumption). Lecter feels an intimacy of sorts with Will - he says something to the effect of "you caught me because you're LIKE me, we're cut from the same cloth, blah blah." Lecter's beef (no pun intended) with Will is really the pinnacle of cannibalism - the urge to eat one's own flesh. Good question, actually. My take is that in Hannibal (the novel, at least - I haven’t yet seen the movie version), we find out that Lecter’s flesh fetish goes back to the last days of WWII, when his family estate was co-opted by starving Nazis retreating from the Russian front. There’s no food, so they eat Lecter’s sister. True to Thomas Harris’s grotesque sensibilities, little Hannibal finds out in the most horrifying way possible: he finds her teeth in the bottom of the latrine pit. This experience is the acorn for his professional life (as brain doc) and his pathological life (the intertwining of intimacy and consumption - physical consumption). Lecter feels an intimacy of sorts with Will - he says something to the effect of “you caught me because you’re LIKE me, we’re cut from the same cloth, blah blah.” Lecter’s beef (no pun intended) with Will is really the pinnacle of cannibalism - the urge to eat one’s own flesh.

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