SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
OVERVIEW
Jodie Foster plays a Clarice Starling, and FBI Agent in training who is assigned to a kidnapping case where she has to find the lady who has been kidnapped before a serial murder skins her. Throughout this case, she finds herself in confidence with Hannibal (The Cannibal) Lector, played by Anthony Hopkins. Lector is a world-renowned psychiatrist turned serial killer, and lives at the Baltimore State Hospital For the Criminally Insane. The FBI need Hannibal's help in solving this case, but young Starling must first earn his trust before he thinks of giving any information away. Believing that it 'takes one to know one' the FBI use Hannibal's better skills to move them in the right direction to capturing the serial killer known of Buffalo Bill.
Review
I give this film a rating of 9 out of 10
I was extremely reluctant to watch this film, and after having my boyfriends beg me for weeks to watch 'this amazing film' I'm glad to say i gave in.
Foster shows her character with extreme 'Girl Power', as a woman that will not only negotiate with a behind bars man-eater, but will also go off on her own to tackle another human monster, even though she is in a very male heavy environment. There is also a fascinating twist int he male perspective, as Starling seems to get more courteous behaviour from the horrendous Lector than from the so called 'normal' men around her at the FBI.
Parts of the story also pulled on my hearts strings, with the ambitious but vulnerable orphan just trying to persevere with the world, and this is the main base plot, the only part that involve the drama and humanity of it.
Foster shows her character with extreme 'Girl Power', as a woman that will not only negotiate with a behind bars man-eater, but will also go off on her own to tackle another human monster, even though she is in a very male heavy environment. There is also a fascinating twist int he male perspective, as Starling seems to get more courteous behaviour from the horrendous Lector than from the so called 'normal' men around her at the FBI.
Parts of the story also pulled on my hearts strings, with the ambitious but vulnerable orphan just trying to persevere with the world, and this is the main base plot, the only part that involve the drama and humanity of it.
I also enjoyed some of the cringe worthy scenes involving Lector, and even though some of the things he says are quite graphic, gruesome and not something you'd see fit in everyday life, it is said in such a light-hearted way that you just simply chuckle in shock, not really hearing what he saying; 'A Census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti', this would in real life be faced with ohrror and disturbance, but here it is expected and this is fundamentally strange to me, but also very intriguing.
Throughout all of the Hannibal Films, his character is very strange, as although he is a brutal murderer that eats his victims, his story is protrayed in such a way that the audience feels sorry for him, and I think thats what makes this film so different to tohers in the 90's, and I think thats what makes me enjoy it so much.
Throughout all of the Hannibal Films, his character is very strange, as although he is a brutal murderer that eats his victims, his story is protrayed in such a way that the audience feels sorry for him, and I think thats what makes this film so different to tohers in the 90's, and I think thats what makes me enjoy it so much.
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