The Silence of the Lambs from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
After reading this film three times, I finally got a good look at it. Considering that there are already many artistic reviews of this film, I will only analyze it from the perspective of psychodynamics (the psychological needs behind the behavior). Synopsis: As an FBI intern, Starling, the heroine of the movie, was assigned a task by her superior (behavioral psychology research group) to go to a mental hospital to find Hannibal, an ogre who used to be a doctor of psychology, as a psychiatrist. A psychological questionnaire survey, hoping to help solve more abnormal murder crimes through the analysis of Hannibal's abnormal behavior. In the film, another perverted murderer, Buffalo Bill, kidnapped Catherine, the daughter of an American congressman. In order to rescue her, Starling cooperated with Hannibal and exchanged her childhood privacy in exchange for Hannibal's psychological analysis of Buffalo Bill, and finally helped the heroine succeed. Finding Buffalo Bill rescued Katherine, and Hannibal also killed the guards of the federal prison under his own careful planning, and finally escaped from imprisonment and gained freedom. The characters mentioned in the above introduction are the key figures in promoting the plot and the psychological development of the heroine. The reason why the heroine and Hannibal have an in-depth interaction is because Hannibal started from the first contact with the heroine. The peeping into the heart of the heroine, a female intern who was supposed to be afraid in front of him showed the opposite courage and calmness, there must be some secrets behind her that he is more interested in, so he used to help analyze Buffalo Bill to tempt The heroine, he knows that the heroine will definitely take the bait (are you full of ambition), but at this time Hannibal is just a pastime, and his pastime is his voyeurism, so he will not reveal it, he wants to know More about the inner world of the heroine. As the plot progresses, when the congressman's daughter Catherine is kidnapped by Buffalo Bill, the heroine's desire to save the poor girl becomes stronger, and Hannibal also has new expectations for the heroine, especially when the heroine tells him that he After his childhood experience, he was even more certain that this woman could bring him freedom, and at the same time he had empathy for the heroine for the first time (Hannibal: I believe it would be interesting to meet you in private). (Transferring: Transferring the emotion of a significant other in the past to another. Freud) To some extent, all human emotions have an element of empathy. Hannibal also has the same powerlessness as the heroine in the face of the brutal murder of a loved one. This person is his sister "Young Hannibal". The heroine also fell into a situation where she was powerless in the face of the victim twice, the first time her father was killed by the robbers (this is the origin of the trauma), and the second time was the lamb the rancher wanted to slaughter (the victim). Father's transference activation). And the heroine's empathetic behavior is to save the father who died in the past by saving the victims who are in danger. (Hannibal: Do you believe that when you rescue Catherine, those sheep will stop screaming, if Catherine is still alive...) And the heroine also gave Hannibal a promise (Starling: There you can read , there is a window to see the trees and water, and you can leave the hospital for a week every year to walk around Breen Island.) As the third key character of the show, Buffalo Bill becomes the bargaining chip of this demon contract, Buffalo Bill's Sick, far from being understood by an intern who has learned a little bit of behavioral analysis psychology from a textbook. Hannibal asks the heroine, guess why Buffalo Bill kills, and reminds her that "Ask for the nature of everything, you look for it" This man is what he is, what does he do, what does he kill to satisfy.
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