32. Classic movies - If you know the beginning of the quote in the title, you have seen this classic, brilliant film that is "The Silence of the Lambs." "...I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
Many people who found out I had never seen this movie were surprised. I was even surprised. It's one of my dad's favorite movies, its a suspense thriller (my favorite genre), and it is considered one of the best films ever made. Well, thanks to my Best Picture project, I ordered it on Netflix.
This 1991 Best Picture winner is just a brilliant film, if I can sum it up one word. The acting is phenomenal, the storyline is intriguing, and the suspense is thrilling. The dialogue between Dr. Lecter and Clarice Starling is just absolutely genius. SPOILER ALERT! The story behind the "silence of the lambs" leaves the viewer thinking deeply into it, the way that Clarice figures out who Buffalo Bill is and the scene where Dr. Lecter escapes is just brilliant. That scene, when the cops figure out that the body on the elevator is not Dr. Lecter's, but yet the injured cop with no face, was so amazingly portrayed.
The only negatives that I saw was that there were some parts that were hard to understand, and I also didn't fully understand the point behind the flashbacks that Clarice kept having with her father dying. They never really summed that up, and I just felt like it was just there. I kept waiting on some sort of symbollism, but it never came.
I don't know why it took me so long to see this film, but I am so glad that I finally did.
IMDB Rating: 8.7 (#24 all time) My rating: 8.5
