Disturbing, Scary, Brilliant, and Captivating

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2000)

"Silence of the Lambs" is by no means an easy film to watch. The whole film has an aura of evil and psychotic power. Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is a rising star in the FBI. Her supervisor and teacher assigns her to interview the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lecter, A.K.A. "Hannibal the Cannibal" (Anthony Hopkins),a a veteran serial killer, a former psychologist, and a rare living psychopath. Starling is assigned to interview Hannibal because of a new serial killer in the public dubbed Buffalo Bill, because he "likes to skin his humps". The FBI suspects that the secret of Bill's compulsive killing is somewhere inside the mind of Hannibal. The movie is tense, long, and brutal, but you feel the fear and desperation of the victims and the interest/fear of Agent Starling. This is a truly disturbing movie though, and I don't think that anyone of the age of twelve could handle it.