Grita Ismaringga, 2250404590 (2009) Traumatic Behavior as the Impact of War Crime in Peter Webber’s film “Hannibal Rising”. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is entitled Traumatic Behavior as the Impact of War Crime in Peter Webber’s film Hannibal Rising. Traumatic behaviors as the impact of war crime focus on the main character, Hannibal Lecter. The objectives of the study are to describe the war crime, the traumatic behaviors of the main character, and the causes of the main character’s traumatic behaviors as the impact of war crime. In writing this study, I needed several references about theories that deal with the topic. I used qualitative method on my study to explain the data. I collected the data by watching the movie repeatedly and then transcribing to identify the data. I classified the data in tables based on the problems about war crime, mental disorder and factors cause the traumatic behavior. I analyzed the data using psychological approach. The results of the data analysis were reported by using descriptive method. The results of the study show that war crime done by Nazi soldiers. They break the rules of war by taking hostages, torturing, and then killing them. They also attack civilians, robe, killing the wounded combatant, and do the willful killing. The most sadistic war crime that they do is killing and devouring Hannibal’s sister. The crimes cause Hannibal Lecter as the main character of this movie become traumatic and full of anger. His trauma is shown in his adolescent. He has recollection of the distressing events when he witnessed and experienced the war crime in his past. He also has recurrent nightmare of the events, bad memories about the events, feeling detach from others, difficulty concentrating and outburst of anger. The result of the study is expected to serve the additional references for readers, especially for other researchers who analyze the topic that is closely related to human’s behavior and war crime.

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