An actors treat, a directors treat, an overall TREAT! (With some Fava beans and a nice Chianti)

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2011)

This film is often criticized for its treatment of using homosexuals as the bad guy, but when watching this film, I could not even think of political standpoints. I was so engrossed with how well made the film actually is. Anthony Hopkins (In his best role to date) plays Hannibal Lecter, a devious former psychologist turned cannibal with a brilliant mind. When a serial killer stalks the Midwest called Buffalo Bill, the FBI recruits a trainee, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) to visit Lecter. Their main goal is to get Lecter to help them capture Buffalo Bill by looking into him psychologically (Bill skins women, and the FBI doesn't know why). Thus, starting a relationship between Lecter and Starling. Not a love relationship, a personal info relationship: Starling must reveal secrets about her past in order to get Lecter to talk. This film is by far one of the most deftly made suspense movies ever made. With Jonathan Demme's crisp, point of view direction, we see through the eyes of the character and this gives us a sense of how they are feeling. Winner of five well deserved Oscars (Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay) , Foster and Hopkins leave this film by giving us a chill down our spine and a heart that is still beating from unbearable suspense from the finale.