To say which perverted murderer is strong, Hannibal can definitely make the list.
Relying on a superb cooking skill, eating human flesh is like enjoying the elegance of a big meal, and pulling uncles to suck countless powders.
But, you know what?
In reality, Hannibal likes to eat people, and there is a prototype.
Its degree of perversion, compared with film and television dramas, can only be said to be more than enough.
As a villain, Hannibal in the film and television drama looks elegant and wise.
But in reality, as a real person, it only looks like it will make people shudder—
"Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Damer"
2022.9.21.USA Network
A shocking case
A poor community in Milwaukee, United States, July 22, 1991.
A black man ran down the street naked with a pair of handcuffs on his hands.
After encountering two patrol officers, the man shouted for help, saying that someone was going to eat his heart.
Following the naked man's clues, the patrol came to Jeffrey Damer's house.
The man looked harmless, but there was a strong smell of rotten flesh in the room.
Even more surprising was that when the police asked where the handcuffed keys were, Damo told them in the drawer.
In the center of the drawer, there was a conspicuous stack of photos of the victims he had taken.
Nudes, broken limbs, rivers of blood, everything is there.
Even the police are a little confused: good guys, this is a super serial perverted homicidal maniac scene self-explosion?
Soon, Damo was arrested and the entire house was thoroughly searched.
It's no exaggeration to say that this is a living hell —
In the refrigerator was a human head, two hearts, and a man's genitals.
In the bedroom there are five skulls, knives, saws, hammers, and photographs documenting the dismemberment process.
In another drawer was a complete bleached human skeleton and a dried scalp.
In the corner of a bucket with a capacity of 216 liters, three pairs of human torsos dissolved.
Afterwards, from 1978 to 1991, 13 years, Damo murdered and dismembered a total of 17 people.
Even if it is hell, this house can only be regarded as a corner of hell.
As soon as this case came out, the whole country was shocked.
What is even more shocking is the calm and natural nature of Damo's trial.
Not only did he refuse the services of a standard lawyer, but he also confessed to the crime.
The process of dismemberment and his own psychological analysis, he also explained everything in detail and thought clearly.
He knew he was committing a crime and even felt that his actions were wrong.
This confused everyone, including the police who had seen more criminals:
If there is normal cognition, why do you want to do this?
And all this began when Damo was a child.
Murderous Maniac Molding
Like many perverted murderers, Damo's misfortune began as a child.
His father was normal, but unfortunately he was not at home for many years.
Because of depression, my mother took more than two dozen pills a day and became delirious.
Although there are parents and mothers, they are like orphans.
Damo, who is already withdrawn, has become more autistic and more difficult to communicate with people.
By chance, Damo became interested in dissection.
It just so happens that my father, who is engaged in chemical analysis, is very good at this.
My son, who has always been autistic, has a hobby, and he is very happy.
So he began to take his son everywhere to find the animals that had been killed or killed, and took them home for autopsies.
But what he didn't know was that his son's autopsy was not a hobby, but an obsession.
In his youth, Damo discovered that he was gay.
But in an era when homosexuality was still not widely accepted, he chose to hide his sexuality.
He didn't think about change, and often, like most people, he lunged at Playboy magazines.
Unfortunately, this thing is predestined.
And the deeper the repression, the more severe the repercussions.
With his posture, it is not difficult to find a partner.
But with his near-zero social level and irritable personality, it is difficult to make friends, let alone anything else.
Years later, when questioned by Damo, Damo confessed:
He prefers to treat people as objects over the living, because he has better control over them.
And only the dead are the most obedient.
That's why he mysteriously stole the male mannequin in the clothing store and slept with it in his arms night and night.
Funny, perverted, and a little sad.
At this time, the relationship between Damo's parents also deteriorated further.
Just as Damo graduated from high school, his parents finally divorced.
The two left Damo alone at home and spent his graduation summer.
It was during this time that his mental state began to become more chaotic.
He finally did not hold back and committed the first murder.
The man was a ride-hailing and wanted to go to a music festival in the city next door.
Damo agreed, but seeing that it was still early, the hitchhiker agreed to come to Damo's house to chat and drink together.
Unexpectedly, Damo couldn't help but kiss the hitchhiker.
The hitchhiker looked shocked, told Damo that he was not that kind of person, and turned around and wanted to leave.
Damo pleaded bitterly, hoping that he would stay, but to no avail.
In a hurry, Jeff picked up the barbell in the living room and slammed it on his head.
One click, two strokes, and then strangles his neck with a barbell.
As Damo had hoped, soon the hitchhiker did not object, and he finally stayed.
The anatomical techniques I learned as a child came in handy.
Melt the flesh with hydrochloric acid and break the bones with a heavy hammer.
To create the illusion that the hitchhiker was still with him, Damo also buried his skeleton around the house.
After that, for nine full years, Damo did not kill again.
Perhaps, as he said, the original one was just an accident, not a deliberate one, and he just wanted to be a good person.
But, the bloodthirsty seeds have been planted, and only one chance of triggering is left.
Nine years later, when he accidentally killed the second victim, his desire could no longer be suppressed.
A long killing began...
Killings are not just killings
The first thing to praise about the show is Evan Peters' performance.
With the lively image of the fast silver is well known to the public, this time the style has taken a sharp turn, and there is no drama at all.
The whole drama gives people a feeling of depression to death, and he must account for at least half of the credit.
If Anthony Hopkins performed Hannibal's evil charm, Max Mickelson performed Hannibal's elegance.
Then Evan Peters plays the loneliness and fragility behind the Hannibal archetypal perversion.
Whether it is the overall temperament to the subtle expressions and movements, he has a very good grasp of it.
The future of the little brother is unlimited.
Secondly, what deserves praise for this drama is the perspective chosen by the creators.
In fact, the real events are far more perverted than in the play.
After the first killing, Damo took off the victim's clothes and caressed his chest with his hands.
Then, looking at the corpses on the ground, the scene rushed a shot.
Just thinking about it makes people feel disgusting, or rather, full of curiosity.
But what is surprising is that Netflix, which has always been a scale explosion, did not shoot this paragraph.
Actors vs. real people
In fact, the episode as a whole doesn't focus on perverted and bloody murderous indecent scenes.
All the murders only show the final result, and do not directly show the process like "Searching for Plums in the Snow".
If nothing else, this is the creators deliberately doing it.
What the series wants to present and explore is the cause behind the serial murder, not just the case itself.
Damao's family environment, as well as his own personality, is of course the main cause, and it accounts for half of the entire article.
However, it is not unusual that these are shown in other films about Damo.
Jeremy Renner Edition of Damo, Homicidal Maniac
And the good thing about this drama is that it goes one step further —
Look at the serial killer from the perspective of the victim and the social institutions.
A heartbreaking fact is that Damo was almost caught long before he was caught.
On that occasion, Damo abducted a 14-year-old boy home and fainted.
After that, Damo used an electric drill to make a hole in his head and inject hydrochloric acid into it.
According to Damo, this was because he wanted to put people in a permanent state of obedience.
Halfway through, Damo went down to buy wine.
When he returned, he found the teenager confused and collapsed at the door of the apartment building.
Next to them stood three black female neighbors and two policemen who had called the police.
Damo panicked a little and quickly explained that they were in a relationship and that the buddy was just drunk.
Miraculously, even though the teenager was still bleeding from his head, the two policemen did not suspect too much.
They insisted that the teenager was just drunk and slammed their objections from the three neighbors, feeling her noisy.
Accompanied by two police officers, Damo returned to his apartment with the teenager.
Although there was a peculiar smell in the room, the police only looked into the room and did not go in and search it carefully.
What the officer didn't know was that at the same time, a body from three days ago was lying under Damo's bed.
In the end, the incident was characterized as a "family dispute".
Before the case, Damo's neighbors had already reported it to the police several times.
The series also released a recording of the verification after the juvenile incident and the neighbor called the police.
Neighbors asked the police over and over again whether they had done a follow-up investigation, but the police were vague over and over again.
If the police had listened to their neighbors, even if only to investigate a little, Damo would have been arrested long ago.
Ironically, it was they who sent the victim back to the killer's home.
The extremely low risk of committing the crime also made Damo start to become more serious.
He used to explain to his neighbors that the sound of chainsaws was a renovation, and the putrid smell was that his refrigerator was broken.
Now that it's good, there's no need to explain.
What happened after Dahm's arrest is equally outrageous.
Because there was no death penalty in the area, Damo was eventually sentenced to 15 life sentences.
In prison, Damo's life became more regular, and he even gained a lot of weight.
Outside of prison, many people regard it as a spiritual idol.
On holidays, someone sends Damo a greeting card letter, or even pocket money.
Later, Damo became interested in Christianity and was baptized.
Because of this, he forgave himself and lived more calmly.
He was cool.
However, the families of the victims are even more uncomfortable.
Many of these Christians spend their days struggling with their own self-blame for not being able to forgive Damoh.
They haven't forgiven the murderer yet, so why did God forgive him first?
In the early hours of November 28, 1991, Damo was beaten to death by a prisoner in the same prison who claimed to have been inspired by God.
But even so, the case is not over.
Afterwards, the government demolished the apartment building where Damo was located, claiming to be preparing to build a park.
Neighbors have been applying for the government to build a stone monument there to commemorate the victims.
However, so far there has been no result.
From beginning to end, the whole case constantly refreshes people's three views.
Not only the criminal process, but also the people and things involved in the pre-case and back aspects of the case.
Seventeen people were killed, and it was not only seventeen who left a psychological shadow.
In the end, the series failed to answer the original question:
If there is normal cognition, why do you want to do this?
In fact, it can't answer either, it just tries to suggest some possibilities.
If Damo can live in a normal family, if the police can perform their duties normally...
The situation may be different.
Unfortunately, there is nothing if.