10 Things You Learn Rewatching Hannibal
2. Never Trust A Psychiatrist
In the universe of Hannibal Lecter, the medical and psychology professions get a lot of screen time. The FBI Behavioural Science Unit couldn’t exist without it and Lecter himself uses his expert knowledge of psychology to exert dominance over a human population he considers to be “no more than pigs.”
Yet it’s not just Lecter we need to beware of as apparently, in this world, all of the doctors here have some serious screws loose. Acceptable medical practise includes the use of psychedelic drugs to elicit entire changes in patients' personalities and using mentally unstable human beings as ways to sell newspapers and books.
Dr. Abel Gideon, a medical surgeon, murders his entire family plus a nurse, then cheerfully disembowels Dr. Chilton. As for Chilton, this guy should be locked in one of his own cages. A “collector of psychopaths,” Chilton is ambitious and narcissistic to the point of using Lecter as a test subject to further his own success. Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, Hannibal’s own shrink, is partially responsible for the deaths of three people, and there's Amanda Plummer (Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction) who plays a therapist that likes to lobotomise her patients and use them as bee hives.
Even Dr. Bloom decides to join the party and have a go at murdering Lecter herself, while also successfully killing Mason Verger with an eel. What is wrong with the medical profession in this world and what are the benefits like?