The movie I watched was silence of the lambs. Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who is a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Dr. Lecter may have a slight advantage and insight into a case and that Starling can get some vital information out of him, as an attractive young woman is the perfect way. She is thrown right into the fire in the beginning, casting multiple interviews. The case became more urgent when Buffalo Bill captured a US Senator's daughter.

 

Overall, I thought the movie was magnificent, one of the best I’ve seen. The acting for Dr. Hannibal Lecter was phenomenal. The perfect tone of voice and word choice with all his talks with Clarice.  The camera work I thought was also really good, when he was in his cell. His tone of voice and diction, and everything about his acting, just amazed me. By far some of the best acting I’ve witnessed. Even though it was an old movie, the effects were still good for the time. Some of the parts where Lecter was biting policeman. It was very graphic though, but still really well done. Even after Lecter has killed so many people in his lifetime, Clarice still believes she was on the right track to help him and get answers. The title, Silence of the Lambs, is related to clarice. As a child, she kidnapped a lamb from being slaughtered. Later, along the same line, she joined the FBI to go after the killers, to supposedly ‘protect the lambs.’ And towards the end of the movies, good is resolved and the killers have gone away, hence the title silence of the lambs. I didn’t like the beginning of the movie however. It took my some time to get into it, as I thought it was a slow start to getting in to a plot. I did some research following watching the movie, and turns out Hannibal revealed that the character was inspired by a real life doctor and murdered he met while visiting a prison in the city of Monterrey, during a trip to mexico in the 1960s. This makes it seem really crazy, that this movie could fall under a sci-fi category, due to crazy cannibals in the world. The only part I didn’t like in the movie was towards the end when a SWAT team came in to the police station to hopefully capture him, the suspense there was just really bad I thought. They had a lot of silly clues and were just pretty much guessing which floor he was on at that point in the movie.

 

I would recommend this movie to anybody who loves an excellent. On the edge of your seat thriller. It kept me entertained the whole time, and I was amazed after I finished it at the spectacular work put into that movie, to make it one of the best there is.