3 feelings mingling

Rating: 9/10 (3 May 2006)

3 feelings mingling, the indulgence in perversion in Buffalo Bill, the sense of precision in FBI, the madness of genius in Lector. These three feelings mingle like a recipe to form something all its own, a feeling greater than the sum of its parts, just as a clock or an automobile is something on its own and bigger than the brute sum of all its parts. The scene in which the movie tricks you into thinking Jodie Foster, also known as Clarice Starling, is in one house or approaching one house (I can't remember) when she's really in another is well done and has tricked me more than once, which means even once I had already seen the movie it had the ability to draw me in so that I forgot to remember that the movie was going to try and trick me. Also, though stating the obvious is often tedious, this is one case that warrants repetition