#naka-choko

[mymadsmmindplace]

2.10 Naka - Choko | Hannibal

if the phrase "stars in eyes" needs a demonstration

[pesky--dust]

Lesbians asking Will Graham the same (valid) question: Shiizakana, Digestivo

[singingrottenbones]

do you think hannibal kissed will's knuckles after cleaning his wounds in naka-choko

tenderly lifting will's bandaged hand to his mouth, lips carefully ghosting over the gauze as not to cause any pain, but applying just enough pressure so that will can feel it

feel that he is being cared for, that he is safe and looked after when he is with hannibal

do you think will leaned into the touch, aching for more, but holding back just the same because he cannot give in, not yet anyway

do you think that maybe, this was the first time will realized he wanted to be devoured by hannibal in every sense of the word

[tayasui-mono]

"You can't reduce me to a set of influences. I've given up good and evil for behaviourism" seemed contradictory to me when I heard it first, yet I think I understand it now. This is Will justifying his action of killing Randall and his supposed murder of Freddie as they participate in cannibalism; dining on Randall's meat. Will's saying what he has done doesn't fit within the context of morality; he doesn't kill because he is evil. He has killed because he deemed it to be the appropriate reaction in his abnormal situation i.e., pretending to get on the same side of Hannibal and for this, he has found no choice but to murder Randall therefore he has abandoned the morality of it. Hannibal replies aptly: "Then you can't say I'm evil" because Will cannot apply contradicting philosophies to two individuals who have exercised the same action. Still resisting, Will tells him, "You're destructive - same thing." Hannibal asks, "Evil is just destructive? Storms are evil; if it's that simple. And we have fire. And then there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under acts of god. Is this meal an act of god, Will?" I really love how convincing Hannibal is. He takes away the worry of morality. He's saying its man-made. They're forces of nature. Who is there to judge us, Will? Besides you. Then the final shot, of Hannibal and Will's faces overlapping and merging together - they've committed the same sin. They've both killed, cooked and eaten another human being. I LOVE this scene. The affectionate, euphoric music, Hannibal's gentle expressions. Him waiting to see how Will likes the food before taking a bite himself. Will's mind melting and mellowing, still sharp around the edges. So lovely.

[blueeyedcitadel]

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[newvision]

Will in Naka-Choko is actually insane. First, he fantasises about beating Hannibal half to death, then they flirt more than obviously at the crime scene of the corpse he killed and mutilated (in front of the fbi), then he outright defends Hannibal to Freddie Lounds, says his relationship with the Chesapeake Ripper — who they both know to be Hannibal — already has an inevitable ending, then he has sex with another patient of Hannibal’s while thinking of Hannibal, then he joins Hannibal and the woman he’s sleeping with for dinner, tells her passive aggressively he and Hannibal know where they are with each other (“shouldn’t that be enough?”) after she says it’s hard to tell, then he provides Hannibal with human meat, knowingly cooks and eats it, stares at Hannibal the entire time, smiles at him, says he’s given up good and evil, and finally begins to blur with Hannibal completely

[jacksonb399]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE ADAGIETTO FROM MAHLER 5 PLAYS AS WILL HELPS HANNIBAL PREPARE HUMAN FLESH FOR HIM TO EAT FOR THE FIRST TIME WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE MOST ROMANTIC PIECE OF MUSIC EVER WRITTEN PLAYS THEN OF ALL TIMES IN THIS GODDAMN SHOW HELP

[vertigoartgore]

Countdown to the 10th anniversary of the Hannibal Series Finale (17) :

Hannibal 2X10 - Naka-Choko (air date : May 2nd, 2014)

Directed Vincenzo Natali by and written by Steve Lightfoot & Kai Yu Wu.

Fun fact : Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice (1971) and Bryan Fuller's Hannibal (2013-2015) both used Gustav Mahler's Adagietto from Symphony no. 5 (far from being the only ones of course) and they are also both set in Venice at some point (only during the first half of season three in Hannibal's case).