Motif in The Silence of the Lambs

Rating: 7/10 (9 December 2014)

In a college level FILM 240 course Fall 2014, we studied the film The Silence of the Lambs. What I suggest a viewer watch for during the film is American Flags. The purpose or reasoning behind the director's inclusion of it may be showing the failing of the American dream that America is not what people from different countries, who want to prosper here, think it is. That America is actually hiding more horrible things than you think. For example, the American flag is found over the top of a car that contains the missing head of a man who is a trans-gender male. It suggests that may be the American government is trying to cover up or hide what really goes on behind closed doors.