Spoiler for people who haven't seen movie yet!

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 2014)

In a college level FILM 240 course Fall 2014, we studied the film Silence of the Lambs. What I suggest a viewer watch for during the film is American flags. The purpose or reasoning behind the direction's inclusion of the American Flag is that the American flags symbolizes freedom yet the movie is mainly about people who are in one way or another trapped. Hannibal being trapped in the facilities, buffalo bill trapped in a man's body yet wants to be a woman, and Clarisse trapped in her dreams hearing the screaming lambs. And at the end buffalo bill is freed from his body by dying, Hannibal is freed from his institutions and Clarisse should be freed from her dreams and able to sleep.