Special agent in training, Clarisse Starling, is plucked from her training to help in the investigation of a psychopathic serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. A psychoanalytically complex case, the FBI sends Starling to see notorious serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, commonly known as “Hannibal the Cannibal” in the hope that they might be able to enlist his professional help in the investigation. However, the sinisterly charming Dr. Lecter is too smart to just hand over information and he demands that Starling indulge him with personal memories about her childhood, thus luring Clarisse into an uneasy and disturbing relationship.
One of the most chilling and delightfully seductive thrillers of all time, The Silence of the Lambs was the first “horror” film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and can boast to be the third movie in history (or at least at that time) to win five major Academy Awards. Based on the bestselling novel by Thomas Harris, it’s a fantastic film filled with gore, dark comedy, delightfully psychotic characters, memorable quotes, and thrilling suspense. IT’S BLOODY FANTASTIC!
Special agent in training, Clarisse Starling, is plucked from her training to help in the investigation of a psychopathic serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. A psychoanalytically complex case, the FBI sends Starling to see notorious serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, commonly known as “Hannibal the Cannibal”, in the hope that they might be able to enlist his professional help in the case. However, the sinisterly charming Dr. Lecter is too smart to just hand over information and he demands that Starling indulge him with personal memories from her childhood, thus luring Clarisse into an uneasy and disturbing relationship.
Everything about this film was perfect. It harboured suspense, disturbing images, shocking concepts, drama, action, violence and gore, and light smatterings of dark comedy. Armed with its savagely precise and witty script, and attacking the audience with knockout performances from the leads, it is one of the best thrillers to date and has no expiration date.
Jodi Foster stars as Clarisse Starling and she was brilliant. A strong woman with a really subtle beauty, she was just mesmerising and delivered a performance that was frank, strong-willed, determined, brave, and incredibly powerful. She was just brilliant!
Although, technically Jodi was the film’s lead, the show belonged to Anthony Hopkins who stars as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I believe the role was originally offered to Jeremy Irons but, after seeing Anthony do the role so perfectly, I cannot picture it. Anthony gave a performance that was sinister, witty, menacing, charming, and oddly enough, strangely seductive. Watching him in this film, so calm and yet so dangerous, was actually a bit of a turn on. Maybe it was that delightfully wicked hiss that he did. HE WAS ABSOLUTE GENIUS!
Starring Scott Glenn, Ted Levine (who was freakishly awesome), Brooke Smith, and Anthony Heald, The Silence of the Lambs was an epically awesome movie filled with drama, murder, shocking concepts, psychopaths, memorable quotes, and dark comedy. It has to be one of my all-time favourite thrillers.
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