The film has a very good use of film language. This film is not only a detective film but also a psychoanalytic film. In the film, the director used a lot of space to show the inner world of the characters and discuss the psychological processes of the characters, and the dark camera processing, superb music use and non-positive performance of the violent scenes add a thrilling and tense atmosphere to the film. , Its use of artistic techniques is amazing. The lens processing of the plot of Hannibal's escape is particularly excellent, which can be regarded as a model work in the movie. Hannibal’s escape method is largely expressed through profile descriptions. The use of light, shadow and color creates an excellent atmosphere for the film, omitting the process and only showing the violent scenes of occurrence and result. The treatment is even more nervous and breathless, and the effect that can be achieved by direct performance can be described as surpassing it. The final open ending of the film adds infinite meaning to the film. Just this ending makes the film enter a higher level of art ().
The Silence of the Lambs Use of film language
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Extended Reading
The Silence of the Lambs quotes
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Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb: [to a mirror] Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.
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Hannibal Lecter: [shouts] No!
[normal voice]
Hannibal Lecter: I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...?
Clarice Starling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away.
Hannibal Lecter: No "just", Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time?
Clarice Starling: Early, still dark.
Hannibal Lecter: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it?
Clarice Starling: I heard a strange noise.
Hannibal Lecter: What was it?
Clarice Starling: It was... screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice.
Hannibal Lecter: What did you do?
Clarice Starling: I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to.
Hannibal Lecter: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see?
Clarice Starling: Lambs. The lambs were screaming.
Hannibal Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs?
Clarice Starling: And they were screaming.
Hannibal Lecter: And you ran away?
Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you?
Clarice Starling: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could.
Hannibal Lecter: Where were you going, Clarice?
Clarice Starling: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but... he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.
Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice?
Clarice Starling: They killed him.