The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs is a thriller film made in 1991, based on a novel of the same name by Thomas Harris. The film features actors Jodi Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, and Scott Glenn. It follows Foster, who plays Clarice Starling, a young woman in training to become an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI. Starling is chosen to psychoanalyze and interview an incarcerated criminal, Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, in order to try and solve the mystery of another crazed serial killer and abductor of the time period, Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill is thought to be responsible for the mysterious disappearances and murders of young women around the country. Starling is sent to seek assistance from Lector, who is locked away in a heavily guarded mental institution, for the murders he has committed. Lector offers to trade his criminal profiling skills in exchange for details about Starling's troubled childhood. In the meantime, information obtained from Buffalo Bill's most recent victim suggests that he is increasing the frequency of his kills. The stakes are further raised when the daughter of a prominent senator is kidnapped. Under immense pressure from her commanding officer, Starling further delves into her unusual relationship with Lector and offers him a transfer from his current asylum to an institution with more relaxed security if he provides her with the true identity of Buffalo Bill. Lector uses the offer to his advantage and agrees only if he is able to personally present the information to the senator. Once at their meeting, Lector toys with the senator before providing her with a false name that leads the FBI nowhere. Convinced that Lector knows the killer's true identity, Starling is forced to trade her worst lingering childhood memory, the screaming of lambs before their slaughter, for information that ultimately leads her to Buffalo Bill. Shortly after, Lector murders his guards and escapes the asylum, leaving Starling to continue her investigation on her own. In a final confrontation, Starling is forced to kill Buffalo Bill, but saves the senator's daughter and earns a promotion with the FBI.
There are quite a few scenes in the movie that make people feel scared. One best example is the talk between Starling and Lector. During their interviews, Lector agrees to help profile Buffalo Bill if Agent Starling shares with him details of her past in a “quid pro quo” type relationship. He shows his psychiatrist side as he questions her in return for her questioning him in hopes of finding a United States Senator’s daughter, Catherine, who is believed to be held captive by the psychopath. For example, “You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs. And you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don’t you? You think if Catherine lives, you won’t wake up in the dark e...
