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Title: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Release Year: 1991
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine.
Plot: Aspiring to be part of the FBI, Clarice Starling is offered the mission of catching 'Buffalo Bill' a serial killer who skins his victims. To achieve it, Starling will have the dangerous help of Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychoanalyst and also a lethal murder.
Review: 'The Silence of the Lambs' is terrific. From the performance of its cast to the quiet, dangerous aura that surrounds the film. It's intelligent, terrifying and a must-see movie for every moviegoer.
To start with, we have Foster's Clarice. In a world dominated by me (she has only one female friend in training) and mentally insane serial killers, she delivers a terrific performance capable of leading the film, being intelligent, cautious and emotionally round in every scene. With such a set it's difficult not to support her, much more when we know that danger surrounds her.
Jodie Foster's character has to deal with a world led by men and psychologically demanding encounters with Lecter. Their compenetration is a key factor for the movie
In the 'evil side' we find Hannibal Lecter. Hopkins' most remembered performance and one of the most acclaimed villains of all time, he delivers every sentence with the confidence of a higher mind who knows that he can control other people's minds. Leaving the fact that he eats people behind, he generales more acceptance by the audience than the majority of flat good characters that we see nowadays.
Their combination is used to identify the criminal and in a delicious final twist we discover that what we thought was a predictable ending (Hopkins and Starling have helped the FBI find 'Buffalo Bill') is indeed a mortiferous danger for Starling. After some minutes of pure tension, she arrests and kills the serial killer and is able to finally graduate.
To start with, we have Foster's Clarice. In a world dominated by me (she has only one female friend in training) and mentally insane serial killers, she delivers a terrific performance capable of leading the film, being intelligent, cautious and emotionally round in every scene. With such a set it's difficult not to support her, much more when we know that danger surrounds her.
Jodie Foster's character has to deal with a world led by men and psychologically demanding encounters with Lecter. Their compenetration is a key factor for the movie
In the 'evil side' we find Hannibal Lecter. Hopkins' most remembered performance and one of the most acclaimed villains of all time, he delivers every sentence with the confidence of a higher mind who knows that he can control other people's minds. Leaving the fact that he eats people behind, he generales more acceptance by the audience than the majority of flat good characters that we see nowadays.
Anthony Hopkins in a terrific performance, one of the most remembered and acclaimed of film history
Their combination is used to identify the criminal and in a delicious final twist we discover that what we thought was a predictable ending (Hopkins and Starling have helped the FBI find 'Buffalo Bill') is indeed a mortiferous danger for Starling. After some minutes of pure tension, she arrests and kills the serial killer and is able to finally graduate.
"Well, Clarice; have the lambs stopped screaming?" In a terrific ending, delicious for any moviegoer, Lecter says goodbye to Clarice and the audience observes how he is planning one more crime. Whispering "Doctor Lecter... Doctor Lecter!" Clarice is left baffled, holding the phone (we suppose that the lambs have actually stopped screaming as they've caught the serial killer)
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