![]() ![]() ![]() Having him hunt down people gives him an honorable motive, which makes one wonder whether Harris wanted us to see him as less methodical murderer and more wounded soul. However, Hannibal Rising is surprisingly unoriginal in its take on our character. Granted, as it is his origin story, we can forgive his lack of calculated genius where he is able to escape whatever traps laid for him. It is curious that little to nothing suggests that this Hannibal enjoys the taste of human flesh. Having said that, it is a wonder why Harris opted to make Lecter some kind of hero, a Nazi hunter seeking to avenge his beloved little sister. He should know the most about Lecter: as Harris adapted his own novel and created the character. Perhaps it was Hannibal Rising screenwriter Thomas Harris' wish to make our murderous cannibal a sad, even sympathetic figure. Slowly, methodically, Hannibal takes bloody revenge on his childhood tormentors, until he leaves for Canada to find the last of them. Hannibal now has his first kill.Įscaping to Paris where he can train as a doctor, Hannibal and Lady Murasaki now begin their new venture: hunt down those who killed Misha. She trains him in the way of the samurai, training that comes in handy when a local butcher insults her. His uncle sadly has died, but his widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) takes him in. After taking murderous revenge on a bully, he finds letters that lead him across the Iron Curtain to an uncle's home. Did Grutas and his fellow Nazi collaborators commit a barbaric act of cannibalism to save themselves?Įight years later, young Hannibal Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) is now in a Lithuanian orphanage, ironically enough what was once Castle Lecter. Lithuanian collaborators take refuge in the Lecter hunting lodge, where their leader Grutas (Rhys Ifans) looks on menacingly at Hannibal and his younger sister Misha. Little Hannibal Lecter survived the Nazi and Soviet invasions of his native Lithuania, though he lost his whole family. It is a terrible shame though, that his origin turns out to be surprisingly boring to dumb. Hannibal Rising is the origin story of that most monstrous yet fascinating of psychopaths, Hannibal Lecter. Does evil need to be explained? It apparently is not possible for the most sinister of figures to not have an origin story revealing how said figures came to be the way they became. ![]()
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