In the trilogy it looks like Hannibal, who judges others in place of God, is godlike, sinful and in a way perfect. And as a patch, Young Hannibal ("Hannibal Rising") often leaves audiences feeling unsatisfactory because of things like "dragging the gods down to the ground and becoming a normal human being." Yet no one is born an ogre (of course Hannibal was born with that potential), or a messenger for God to punish sinners. The id under the mask of Hannibal may still be an ugly and inferior human being. (I think high-functioning sociopaths can't be said to be "higher" humans, of course they think and behave as higher-level people). So put aside the preconceived impression of the trilogy for the time being, and think about whether this "Hannibal Rise" has made the image of Hannibal "low-level" and "shallow" as others have criticized.
"The little boy Hannibal died in that snow in 1944, his heart died with Misha."
Many viewers say that it is too low-level to design the roots of Hannibal's alienation as a shadow of childhood, but I don't think so. Hannibal may be Hannibal by nature, but the sister's story serves as the beginning of a twist. Hannibal's childhood in the movie is happy and simple, which is what most children should be, whether it's because of their ability to understand or their knowledge of the evils of human nature. Misha is his favorite sister. They depended on each other during the war. Hannibal would leave the only food left to his sister. This is "Little Boy Hannibal", but this clean child is directly destroyed by Misha's tragedy. From here, his martyrdom of self-redemption and self-destruction begins.
"Do you think God wanted to eat Isaac? That's why he told Abraham to kill him." "The angel stopped him in time." "Not every time."
Hannibal's attitude towards life from his youth may be his innate indifference. Or maybe it was the ugliness he saw in his childhood that made him subconsciously "request" himself to be an ugly and inferior "tribute" that is higher than humans. He began to use religious imagery (in "Hannibal Rise" he added elements of Japanese culture by retaining the heads of enemies as part of Hannibal's behavior), eating his slaughtered villains as "tributes" Lost, he is close to the image of God to the victim, and the victim is just food, an inhuman thing (a sinner who has lost his humanity). He is an angel of God who punishes sinners in a timely manner. Go punish Abraham and Isaac.
And when he learned that he also ate his own sister's meat, (you ate meat, why didn't you kill yourself?) as one of the participants in the dehumanization behavior, these behaviors also have what he thinks is The meaning of redemption (or escape). As the beginning of everything, the sister is the "pure lamb", and the sinner is the "tribute" on the way to his redemption, martyrdom, or becoming a god. Every time he eats the flesh and organs of the punished, it is a redemption, denying man as a man, and denying himself as a man, and elegantly tramples on man's personality, in order to confirm and enhance his "godhead" in self-knowledge , is the loss of self-humanity, and finally makes Hannibal's self more noble.
From then on, the image of Hannibal and Hannibal in the trilogy can still be connected naturally, and the unreal feeling of fallen angels is less.
Or, the original author and screenwriter's ideas are much smarter than the readers and audiences.
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