Transformation of the characters in Silence of the Lambs

Samson 2022-04-22 07:01:01

In the film Silence of the Lambs, lambs, skeleton moths are all very important images. The lamb represents childhood fears and bad memories, and the skull moth represents the desire to transcend and transform childhood expectations. Doctor Ryda, Chrissy, and Buffalo Bill all undergo transformations in the film, with Dr. Ryda still high, Kris succeeds, and Buffalo Bill fails.
Doctor Ryda, an excellent psychiatrist, turned into an ogre. Not disgusted with cannibalism means losing part of human nature, but still maintaining normal thinking logic, restraint, etiquette human social skills, and still possessing a unique and complete psychological and behavioral pattern. Dr. Leda still possesses excellent psychoanalytic ability, and he uses foul language, word games, and situational exchange for psychological suggestion and empathy. When Chrissy first visited the mental hospital, she learned through the documents that she was not an official FBI, indicating that his observation ability was very keen. Hoping to see the outside world after 8 years in a mental hospital, she works with Chrissy in solving the Bill Buffalo case and eventually escapes. In the final episode, he takes a fancy to an "old friend", so there is suspense as to whether he will continue to cannibalize in his new life in general.
Chris is a traumatized childhood and the origin of the Silence of the Lambs. In working with Dr. Leda, I think she was appreciated by Dr. Leda. Through "exchange" and the use of empathy, Dr. Leda helped Chriss successfully resolve the congressman's daughter and also rescued her spiritual trauma. The final rescue of the congressman's daughter: darkness, rock music, barking dogs, and people's desperate cries for help is similar to a reenactment of Chrissy's escape from fear at the ranch. She killed Bill, pierced through the plank, and a series of scenarios where the sun shone in was also the process of her soul being rescued. In addition, Chrissy was actually influenced by Dr. Leida's psychological suggestion. At the celebration banquet, when Chrissy shook hands with Crawford to say goodbye, a ring was put on the ring finger of her right hand, indicating her defense against Crawford. In any case, spiritually, her trauma has been rescued and her spiritual transformation has been achieved.
Buffalo Bill is a psychopathic reality executor. Unlike Chris, who is silent about her childhood trauma, she carries out serial killings in public, and uses actions and rituals to expect to achieve reality transformation. Obviously, he needs to kill endlessly or be captured, neither can achieve the transformation he wants, and he fails.
On the topic of transformation, Dr. Leda has sufficient professional knowledge and can heal others, but he cannot heal himself. He has a sense of frustration and a constant denial of self, which leads to the collapse of his benign personality, Keli Si is a persevering person and a person who knows restraint. In her interactions with Dr. Leda, she was in line with Dr. Leda's judgment of a benign personality, so she was helped. I figured that even if Kris couldn't achieve the transformation, she would still be harmless. 10 years ago, Buffalo Bill's lover expressed fear that Bill killed a homeless man to cut his skin and cut his clothes. Dr. Leda couldn't do anything about it, so he killed him and put him in the garage. 10 years later, Buffalo Bill still has an assumption about his own gender, and still can't realize the transformation.

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The Silence of the Lambs quotes

  • Jack Crawford: Starling, when I told that sheriff we shouldn't talk in front of a woman, that really burned you, didn't it? It was just smoke, Starling. I had to get rid of him.

    Clarice Starling: It matters, Mr Crawford. Cops look at you to see how to act. It matters.

    Jack Crawford: Point taken.

  • Miggs: [looks at Clarice after throwing his semen at her] Got you.

    [laughs insanely]

    Friendly Psychopath: Miggs, you stupid fuck!