In "Hannibal", Hannibal's spiritual world is very mature. Unlike "Silence of the Lambs" and "Red Dragon", in this one, Hannibal is no longer indiscriminate. The target of killing is no longer innocent people, but the villain in the movie. It seems that the screenwriter also has compassion for Hannibal. In fact, such a change is not unreasonable. When we watch this movie, Hannibal is already incognito. He is about to become the director of the library. Some people don't want to let him live a normal life. This person is Mason, the victim of Hannibal's torture in the past. He offered a reward of 3 million US dollars to those who provided Hannibal's clues, but there was a Patsy. The inspector of the police headquarters found out Hannibal, and sold the information to Mason, and then we can see that Patsy was the first to be killed (let's exclude the thief). Then a series of killing incidents are all related to Mason, that is to say, without Mason, there will be no cannibals, and Hannibal may take the route of normal people.
In fact, this is not difficult to understand. We have mentioned earlier that at the end of "Hannibal Rise", Hannibal's cannibalistic complex has been elevated from "subconsciousness" to "consciousness", that is, the conscious stage. Since you can consciously kill people, you can also consciously control them, or consciously stop killing people. In Freud's psychoanalysis, the "subconscious mind" is the unconscious mental activity that is suppressed under the conscious and preconscious, representing the deeper, more primitive, and more fundamental psychological energy of human beings. The drive behind all human behavior. Therefore, the cannibalism complex in the unconscious stage is the most terrifying. As for why Hannibal would consciously not eat people, we have to analyze it from Clarice.
At the end of "Hannibal", Clarice handcuffs herself and Hannibal as the police arrive, and Hannibal takes the knife and escapes from his hand. Add that last kiss and we can conclude that Hannibal is in love with Clarice, and I don't think anyone would object to that conclusion because Hannibal killed Paul for her. But we have to question again, will such a man-eater have love? Of course the answer is yes. In "Hannibal Rising", there is also love between Hannibal and his sister-in-law Ms. Zi, although It's indecent love. In fact, people like Hannibal who are extremely traumatized are the ones who need emotional care the most.
We can make such a bold speculation, because as a normal person Clarice, although Hannibal saw in "Silence of the Lambs" the psychological trauma caused by Clarice's childhood because she walked away with a lamb, But in general, she is a normal person without criminal tendencies, so if Hannibal wants to love Clarice, he must return to being a normal person, which is why he consciously does not eat people. In this film, Hannibal is passive cannibalism in general.
Another point of analysis is that in the end, Hannibal cut off Paul's celestial cover, but Paul did not die. Hannibal cut a piece of Paul's brain and fry it in a pot and then fed it to Paul. While eating his own brain, Paul also said "It is good". I think Hannibal wanted to prove to Stelling, or everyone else, that subconsciously, all people actually have the desire to eat people, because no one has ever tasted what human flesh is like. Humans have always had a huge interest in things that have not been tried.
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