The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Story line is good... This movie is a classic! It's a must watch for sure!

Classic

...on it's skin or it gets the hose again.

every viewing I see things not seen before. starting with the shadowy figure at end of her running path at quantico, her diminutive size in the elevator full of male agents, hannibal's position of dominance when she meets him outside his cell, "sit. please", as if he's welcoming a client into his psychiatric office. clarice's struggle to get the storage door open confirms that clarice will struggle going forward; not only with opening the "doors" within herself, but opening the doors in her assignment, and in this complex adult, male dominated world of intelligence work for which she has no experience. the first show of clarice's strength and intelligence is when she juggles having to stick up for herself as a professional to chilton meanwhile complimenting him to feed his ego AFTER he solicits her (later she presents right back at him astute, firm, professional, matter of fact, anda "shut up and butt out, let me do my job, or I'll call on the appropriate authority" attitude. then clarice faces her own boss, who set her up under a false pretense, to interview hannibal to "gather information" about his "insights" but not about his real objective: to try to garner any info hannibal might reveal about Buffalo Bill. clarice's strength is again revealed in the autopsy room. despite the sickening scene, her first direct encounter with a deceased person, the victim is a woman and has been horribly mutilated, but clarice, visibly shaken, still manages to follow protocol as well as succinctly summarizing her findings. later in the car with her boss on the way back to office, her disgusting boss tries to wiggle his way out of his condescending and discriminatory behavior when all the male officers were present, in the autopsy room. and so on it goes. there's so much going on in this movie and its brilliant. the close up camera angles. the rooms in the killer's house are amazingly well thought out: dishevelled, cluttered, rotting corpse in a bathroom, dirty kitchen, the cute WHITE little innocent dog is juxtapose to the evil dark sick mind of its owner. so much symbolism in this film that it might take a week to cover it, and then we could find more. simply brilliant.

As far as how much I enjoyed this film, I would give four stars -- above average; it had depressing elements yet remained quite engaging throughout; it was rich in detail without sacrificing pace; the fifth star is for the final 20 minutes of this movie, which truly frighten me. I am still a bit jittery after watching it!Worth mentioning, 'Silence of the Lambs' stands on its own as a film without 'Red Dragon' or others.There's a 1-star review on the front page that picks this movie apart, and it makes a couple decent points and a couple bad ones (several of these 'issues' were explicitly treated in the movie and can be resolved if one watches closely). I think the main point is the unlikely premise: a trainee becomes involved in a really high-profile (& perilous) case; for all we can tell this is a lark, because a senior agent has some reason to suspect that a serial killer he'd helped capture before may hold the key to secrets in the mind of a fellow killer -- something along these lines -- and the upshot of this trainee's involvement (and some innate skill, or else there would be no story) being that she ends up chasing the killer herself. The way things are run in this country, such events would never transpire*; agencies only increase their chokeholds on stability over time, hoping to prevent the occurrence of the unexpected. If a trainee were thrown into the field like this, the results would be impossible to predict. However fiction provides a flexible vehicle, and this is a fictional story of a very risky bid. It is not meant to be historical fiction, but horror, therefore this unrealistic element is more of a strength than a weakness (it is both).I don't want to give a lot of the ending away, but there is something totally unnecessary which is cinematically brilliant. This movie is rather gross yet it doesn't feature much gore. It takes its time with a few scenes that upset some innate desire for psychic equilibrium, and it succeeds in being highly disturbing. It touches all of the primal fears I can think of off the top of my head: sudden loss of sight, suffering in the dark, being trapped in pain, desperation of others, screaming, the pliability of human flesh, sacrifice of innocence, insanity, sudden realization that a situation is quite a lot more dangerous than anticipated, mazes, a tortured mind becoming a torturer. This movie contains a lot of prejudice, but almost none of it is senseless. At its best, it points a finger at society. The most brilliant themes (without spoilers) are Lecter's notion of decency and its probable etiology, and observation vs voyeurism. I really liked 'Silence of the Lambs,' so I'm not writing a very smart review, but this is a movie I will want to watch again.*a tragedy, perhaps

A great and edgy movie with Jodie Foster and the great Anthony Hopkins..a must have!!

Great movie, great acting…

Been awhile since I watched this and it was a good if not better than I remembered.

I first watched this film because it was considered a classic. Well what a classic it is. The acting by Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins is outstanding, but all the actors are brilliant in it. Ted Glen in particular is extremely chilling and creepy as Buffalo Bill. While Hopkins isn't on screen much he owns every second of the scenes he is in. Jodie Foster who is really the hero of the story is fantastic and totally believable as the trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling. Can't recommend this film highly enough.

Good film

good

Disc was all scratched with a sticky coating, would not play.

Pictures probably at their best, wondelful steelbook case, a classic, Blu-ray gives it new visibility, new details, and still the same magnetism.